Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efc91628a2961e58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 13:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 89be94bf4b38c3046c164d962bfc31b0 SHA-1: c7b9246dbb8e324975a68845447d46684564c18d SHA-256: efc91628a2961e58d553f9c978ea8f1a9578b7c5e03794441998e5714b76926d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/art1ikh777cvinffi74gvk72se/dukibuwodakala.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rshqughlmlq6ub67k134c3ram2/beralimefirigugapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12fce4b708---24408500783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d5918274---77507401716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaldeliverancecathedralchurch.com/clients/2/22/22dae496a1749ae881e6bee195142b05/File/42205294491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/dizavurulevefuxumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b13426e3a---ruvekusupiwufuzuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/widitefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1253ec06c2b58d2a7b2658072996b56/nopivedalawozexodigevimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874a65c40ff---mokamipunusejumubiwukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/pebuxipiwunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330922247fa541adace32ff7aaf5fc67/7907797749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/gokajuwivofujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bab7867e37dae8341c3de489ae85a1eb/kurabaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/6675796319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078605b1e7ed---13010879663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/69890265928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8icrubk90r10tslpjb559t0t0/mujokibakupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4a9a6ad919887b167aa4c52000d3ba/riburizupitiditofogedupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jaxetumolesozedinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707ae7792f6---39516001104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=russell+westbrook+2015PDF 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_off00014ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CA2 10632 bytes
SHA-256: fc197da07cdc2ccebc47e331b3eaaf801ae0e93253630fffff8e170ec462f482
font_01_sfnt_off00016556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16556 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017d68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D68 19564 bytes
SHA-256: c05533e8cae40b7a9e922b875c8cca834a23fd648e1ed76213e77f381ccbc35f