Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efb9c998718f86fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 08:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4dade16b3a10ff0c95e2646234f193c9 SHA-1: 19393d497ff40ad7b8a0712f75a2af5d6e3fc7f0 SHA-256: efb9c998718f86fdae61eebc8a2a52061480afdb878b8eaa568f73d1de609a68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9704

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 http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/34480253817.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead57918927dc8cf369aa78a2fb26bba/nizivabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/mafudukibugokipozida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austdoorcaocap.com/upload/files/nebuloniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/67029264752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1be382612---josalowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/39494728467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078439f47770---27206480691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e93f52835d4d418dead6f7d1083237f/69624484805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f42e1274e---59072001918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712e3fca4ec---75590746803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f73427ee2---57932226293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusotusinodavamuxejimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3488ed4ebbb12a7eec66c4f26a04198/79844104913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpv63q2klhf1pg5bjd0bahkkc0/pojerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/dupaposudabojobaperagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/8781449976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c6061db01---toperakule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22aa3f908dd581bf65b47f42d06b6ea/borototafowatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/malar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094599f9b6cc---94262698775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076024a110a8---37814363415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/50494074565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/wokonido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811066e184d---mazafigaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=bloons+tower+defense+battles+hacked+unblockedPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00013f9d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x13F9D 22512 bytes
SHA-256: 25fcf2568087636a956fd2b989378e16b33e3377a0607eb299220e7f2b71d5da
font_00_sfnt_off0000f63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63C 10952 bytes
SHA-256: e274c33cf8244ae023435a922102af8821eceee10132017339ccd87592b68520
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB2 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 68359c062281d43bb8998c18541af2c9faf4e813e63e751db72db29e2864bba6
font_03_sfnt_off00016740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16740 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1