Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef980827e1c48f6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:12:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cd6bc8487b0fb81a0047f1175f76f2f3 SHA-1: b15bc22c55a24bd0c65f17134cb73af5c47d7dfb SHA-256: ef980827e1c48f6a7b0770325aea88c85d83720aa18da9a4f7791cff7b1ece43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a7e72b3a8965bf74ab751b8e1d4cad/kofisefewav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/87947458591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e490694720285e8ff279dbf5db3e4aa/82667127388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwevuwakinovaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f83061238f---zogurusoteruboxazotefowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd502802bc9---dilebezupasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e04a7c8f0e---56106399753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940abf7af4a---73374900779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/63296826845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/pibujiwejolejuxifotoxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966f8515fcf---1915679504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c938a06a290---70294766929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/17286664279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff425a717d---42132852721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ab2b8a8e8---24607041164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f188eb775a---watujobulitudalunemajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/64323459212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607033b7ce00d---muwaliwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb03db1e4aa---37001383482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k62oc7r8ire5gbkajcgvj72s7/refotetakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/32879707317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d8bac1bf2---virigilivezafogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/simagugoxoxanagonapegizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34e882911---waronavisivigeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-26/20210526114801731063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c784ef1323---piladedoxisizugefusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+way+way+backPDF 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_off0000f3bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BC 29028 bytes
SHA-256: c39e600d14b8bc406a0814e7166b9454dd89d9d431479486f93eeb19f82800cf
font_01_sfnt_off00012db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB0 9992 bytes
SHA-256: 22c7fcc0384bc576c6cbbbf5bbd79ca44b627e9c14527d400011bc624a3d8d69
font_02_sfnt_off00014417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1