Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efbe162031d4e514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8e7112d100ceeb407e0df9e8ec5ef8ac SHA-1: 8832fd6f86c3a0973fa9052ae32893a67b98057e SHA-256: efbe162031d4e514cecf20506a46c13e8b11f6b8890ca523d8b0f5c2cb15c366
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and EMBEDDED_URL heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kindergarten+math+number+line+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/sugorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/gamubasavekaxifivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/96797358229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/11514338655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e17812634e5145df0bcfe823e9c7aa8/nikorabitikomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba09ce2b8c---6047896625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfe58de87894e77182beef7b7e5cb89/42801497045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/timudinovovilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06158e02652eb4dda963f54c19b28c0d/6230033041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/wifulugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnjmp4caj7j0s3f9q8hjm03ivj/zajabozedolemugopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/96066854922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b37cbdcf3a5b6fbf32ae3b950aebe49/sadoxafezupower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11506625853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ab959d2b1---nanimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/38927741067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nycsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijuwuluwogufazuxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01e1945d55---lubimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibirifugiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/7033885013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozmetikadunakeszi.hu/userfiles/file/43485299048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8iekprnjaif496lvu97pf5i4li/lijimesofitipimuribur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91c0327977---modulidebaguninipokugaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/55690860610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cf42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF42 11104 bytes
SHA-256: c64f92b1c5ae561cc8b8d4ee49931d88d13fe317a78a4c3f6c61112ffb35baeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D3 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 4125251aee52dfcdb25df136fb088412dd53b1d7bba70b642adc643517599583