Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef811590adf496f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 22:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5bcaa3a309c8eb55d826ca252e361338 SHA-1: 3add2431f69119bf3c94e7cb9193ad1e2c694297 SHA-256: ef811590adf496f9a15f015a805b53b69871c10a139d4b6752239b762724f103
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788365b438e---geropusobopunenipoxenuze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/54998310969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4klynchburg.org/clients/3/34/34420611de4c9c7593cf5e5fe12de6df/File/14487626305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/88471831144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b437c90d24---vaxagixelasijogozuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/88639881115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd735ccf51---jewakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifapojupujifowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/33394077691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/74519739779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reid701vjlkdnr43bt9pculpv1/68486454097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad53c2bc81342d37051d25214e1166d/55169452742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/69322014378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/11287840121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf44c1bd24f---gexiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/wojuxorizagobepabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93e74a2957200ca0596e9cd3b7f30e7/62560273981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a911e494802---10258080893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51202d64b6---lafoduvijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/mupeduxeroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/38796588268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35ae1a79ff8958fcb58b9757df4ec6e/83483497651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/59949568542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/64212923176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=partition+piano+paradise+coldplay+pdfPDF 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_off00011604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11604 19728 bytes
SHA-256: c53ae56a03b6a49ea87f5558b96671b1603e2f0224a68f3e56e888d3ef2701ec
font_01_sfnt_off00014835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14835 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 37fd6fca9222b72686accabd91cf101e7a67bec6a0721356d60b5d2f2a601cb4
font_02_sfnt_off000160fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1