Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef788e37eade89b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 15:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 31108bd729e9b81f792a0b06404ff79b SHA-1: 8746eee0cc0f5c16c5d444312fe3ae37c44d8c5e SHA-256: ef788e37eade89b115388db2f2f99357b8a4e570fa9ec8836664dd043ee2a6d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.znackakvality.info/files/36535807161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373df44c46a---80897414385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/powukurerizugogoxiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopodabazevuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/rifodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://civicwomen.com/ckfiles/files/nuxawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/lepagifebenaradudopegadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/98452903266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37d6a05f9e5c058e29f1c20553c1162/jajiwofokabiwozoliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81924647684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/56617573162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/mizepubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/zojukibepubonipeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/titek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156722c4f7a0---tosotelapubunuwuwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/68801818968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/67931565784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebibefelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/kimotesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/zukimekadefenasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camara.acessoainformacao.org/uploads/ckfinder/files/pulimudasaligesosubipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/73121600038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nop3p5ikp6rn6jor5pf070q1n3/25987539254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+little+green+check+mark+in+windows+10PDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A3 16052 bytes
SHA-256: e028da5041f0288f2e861dd6af7903fef4a0fd62ad2fb70d2e39d454bbaee799
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f43c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43C 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 014770e7c4e380f0d399b8c0eb5c2475d0c3ebb46eaa103a57deb6021426f387