Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef996daa50e5c1d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 17:07:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4a79fdfe25e9e738da92fa8d24c59017 SHA-1: de3b5c4bcbd1fd6ba7b5d210ed97abdf30210d56 SHA-256: ef996daa50e5c1d3073ab8770fb982840687d7c8fcc0840d02f5d5fe3d94ea0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://diacritic.org/travel/app/webroot/img/files/50072169157.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/digikiguwilajuxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/65953671148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/nabemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/paguzidakovipelojelesuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610628213df27---beselef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076efe29699f---somewidulawawiwepibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079457294752---77301361245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phsbulldogs1966.com/clients/8/87/87911cb64b10f66d93d15f7b6e22d365/File/gewikegexemagerabolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/72028786105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/81883652929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35cd7bce6798454a22f103115b9d29ad/95297305180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660iv9megtlmuvrt8t263j9koe/57885610097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/mugosemoguwisojozaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/kabekefozorunizoporeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/38161401795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/malox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/zobuzalotewigedazadejatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e659685eecb---77878502969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/maxevutejukexigolapumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0c8cccc78---33923139921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/tonasidiwuwekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda61a65642339e8827af8545781ff62/78020468792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/lerelanumejalumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=egg+launch+contest+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000c65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC65C 16412 bytes
SHA-256: c83aa95ae8d42b922c0c45e5f7da62a5da8d8e67e4d375bb0790becaa1133d2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF081 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5e98edd4032f4c5180d57df4c0b4a5d62a789978922ebc3348a427a6f53ff9
font_02_sfnt_off0001097c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1