Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efa1f841fd4b9775…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4d10423876d46ae0a2591fc6f2a79f0f SHA-1: 714da668dd72aa12deb70aa801dcf41e689e558b SHA-256: efa1f841fd4b9775239ca12c1d2e547bbdbf539ebff9354e78e4408bb74e0489
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lnge5ig3ddiaqoe9q5pejsp7v/risivexifasexujesevido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a17dbbaf82---sonexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nozage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/wuworanuraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2197a4e85---92843549692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/panevedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876d339dfbf---35631648145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353d215e5a---15828245352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/94159420984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7bbc0e093524153c985fc8be398b590/kokivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/15336729140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc58e1933d59f6a646880b79f027886/95461442113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca9a07836---25822134469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/4640304250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b04c20cd16---38667984651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/69377299854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/30569422115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c437ec776---nosadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/172262771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwomadalogowavadaxitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7af9d089d28a8eec6c607dae76cb38/gitugezotunidexemejutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turexpert.md/userfiles/images/file/80153796911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b561d07bfe0---78070297216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/segorimujinaxalofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rick+and+morty+butter+robot+gifPDF 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_off0000d11c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD11C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE933 11096 bytes
SHA-256: ba2b3097f31e5082584b6ecdf145bb0663ee2b3f8aeb2fe91b99ddcf72a7be87
font_02_sfnt_off000102ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EF 17872 bytes
SHA-256: a945e1161e334db36f01c9849a7453034ae21e23edc44843430bf748a73359a5