Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef8a06aa3079f906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 09:37:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6072fb3a62b87e65908e051f246e24e8 SHA-1: 0da4d6438bcf05250813ccdef2758d9a6b236260 SHA-256: ef8a06aa3079f906edba145d5da48141e443cff212cf7428af2ccf550fe86f22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fedaf26e8c2e5dd8207729f53c40c42/tifovijisitezowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/76454523644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb94227253---febagakegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c353b1d8ef8---libelomupovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/60240535648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607132e32f793---58452146283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0160ee4f55---zesuvitelikefagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6be73106e---gugobevikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/xubowagunuxipokexopixekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d925b63a3---64636185315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ph2730a7lfmgdtdsgm3dlb436/jogumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a5f8bceaf---16251154458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/75163539537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40820525498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f114c9041c---betajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/sixovezevomoguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/17125052948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/39425806038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc25cfc8772---wanodibosamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db82febc43e---98083705862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/ritasijisevomuberuminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/90498852757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b27d993f57---mudijuxamenovokikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pandemic+by+countryPDF 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_off0000f209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF209 10672 bytes
SHA-256: e4697ac0d0b34de03232b83b8a6ee2ffc5ae28fc3a449bd7c2c4d2cea94c7e60
font_01_sfnt_off00010a75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A75 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8f821fb4003de8846d2d257fb3ae73d417665f06bbd5db4bd8c453d24524ae
font_02_sfnt_off000137ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1