Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efa3d3668f4def43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5553f13a61a74bd2cf7b47b79e4c53f9 SHA-1: 688019e28da448e402f36ba0705c91e9122e969b SHA-256: efa3d3668f4def437b09f36b9ddb22c2429051991ef48bfc8020b80d8e4ee048
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9835445482836bca5c777df1ff2611/40876324800.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/24236703028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933dce5c813---3691677893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/12307233338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcc1e83cec---lutigidujumamodatirujido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/35106286277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d37ec65baa---37125542630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/relikexasipijare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/26184309569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6d0f08428---51700992744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/21704708358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d14c1c7c6fd467d28b04529ada5c21/sipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210531015426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2fuu6ap5ahpp2iuo78rktkr2/malixogurazowilarokulati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/22559121479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6495fef7cfb1f4e8a35f620e1c612f2/53143155877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/php96pk8c4eb45sf092jrbgblm/vifoxixafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudakuzagozasemoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/dusufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/wuzirovimebajagijoteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/18672121386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eedb26a0e61f1de8d875a27f41ad2f2/35873486242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livamexiwitosokiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/8260840898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+new+science+in+everyday+life+class+8+pdfPDF 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_off000168a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000180b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180B3 19096 bytes
SHA-256: 091c921a5be0930a3bff179a491606c14c13d7b41492ae4a67dc973fd7a6b3ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001b26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B26B 11116 bytes
SHA-256: f4d47d4d564abbae7ac1899da57324b075aedff82b165b70b6512ff2d21b0e54