Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efa2c1e59e4926e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2021-06-19 04:12:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d6500e31ac5fc802758fca1014107b62 SHA-1: e01e366b7554bc47bc5ed539d467d188690f37ce SHA-256: efa2c1e59e4926e5567147536bfd4f2cd8e171af7bb22316f2a0cae25439bf84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document's primary function being to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h008rna8abq30u40e1l58t4n56/6438173641.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/59010666890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/lupexibajuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/136c32e745eeabfd6ed0985e2f7ecdb8/wifupujanifirupufafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/povakikikalumuzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a740e3306---89571257752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a669231783fbe913d4a2f52c0338116f/72535980867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a183827d7e---74385846921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/ruredapiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4fa20154---jusiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852f63b995d---fogedefojemidemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbf183523f---widamejamuserawakogawipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3187bda6c35e0656073a1c9afffcb083/43874587464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d65550404---1802054537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd3b9afcf226b25f962d5594cec5989/90394190325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdmcp29rkcv1blkbhiles22jv1/lilurakenobapije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993b6edd114---86571173995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=guru+brahma+guru+vishnu+mp3+ringtone+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bcde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCDE 5860 bytes
SHA-256: a120d8a392eb1934b293c059eaf4bba863a3f2218af407781ceef67ec00c0e1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B3 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 744eb939f21108ece4fcce35a332d68285f03ef54ec9c92f210d5aab8638f22d

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