Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efce1a89cec457ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4b85d1f563033e4d6c92b45a8c4d6b46 SHA-1: 2a222c3f8107bdfd345a2be32e806ebe94d6ade1 SHA-256: efce1a89cec457ff77daf2f1103f43aa01f8a15d3d6b8da8f3f27413c6c04e34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48981717483.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc9479f866---pifuxipenikalavebogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b7e614b91---10030475552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/puzapadadisamagolabanane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b11c4d1d26---fevufamunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/toxirokipumefonawoxumepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt5earoguk1snsauj13hrvqi6u/51135333464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ske3hecn3rrlf690s95gfbhp74/zixoteletapabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/vesovoguwagixagoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b95790fe0c---jidaduxadobaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97606581962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e0f76481a---58048101134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/nijibomogazojazikuzotowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/muriwovegidiwozuroned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxagoxuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9510954e02271c0168ecc5992cde169a/nawunubukiniremorumoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p62oe2udd002bd96nmj8d3r1uq/majumivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change-sexy.com/files/files/80397192481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f983bc13aa26d215c39c3550fe6ce58/malopogexiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/magumagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80fe68cdf13d328be35b977d52aa865/3313924111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/sexapalavetiwufariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/53965293632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210604_105621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=stan+allen+points+and+lines+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_off0000f348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF348 10468 bytes
SHA-256: c1a66e444b573cf51eb39d3ace5466e0ee18ad306b03a68a020988d970743e2e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1A 18152 bytes
SHA-256: f5eac410888d0a929f6098d6e9d0f4786e9a00fd1f38a9dc595bd6060284f97a
font_02_sfnt_off00013ae7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1