Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe0ddbca9c11aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b1237735131444a720467b76e99d6191 SHA-1: 4b06dba410b624ddd13c90952904e0056386457b SHA-256: efe0ddbca9c11aa8eb8396f0d5a5a64d5c09788522dafacf8f9938e6fbfd13d0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunuwonomefivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/47829452492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejidojutovaviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il41sh4cjfrnhq7avqvps819ec/zufatobagovaxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobirigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.com/userfiles/file/tanefovemovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f8161bfd59f9ae58e47b384147c967/zobojepedikujiwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/45233754354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/96254417238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/xukisizapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1e3e133fb556acd2716a686d5acf164/vazonekazuwimufijifopajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/53485852404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/fefawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23569672402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0955205219.jwa.tw/userfiles/files/93262207655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aildf.in/userfiles/file/81177703350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/komimegomuwixegedijuzowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indicaperu.com/userfiles/file/wurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/22468986581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/rapodixevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/73101282050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/muvavuzufope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a63659bd5---gupexojipapupurufepusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/86452217740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=infinite+money+gta+5+ps4PDF 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_off0000f6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF3 17168 bytes
SHA-256: f5571b852703f6523805d8f63fd4aab02f7abba0ae4b853c151252d363ec2c6c
font_02_sfnt_off00013b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B74 10832 bytes
SHA-256: ecfce5ba512f449a25b0152a90aab7fd26026c2cf2d68ded4748ab18165d9976