Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe1c8bf65f06d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e3b7ddf6f18c3bb430cd60ce8d82a726 SHA-1: a320b06323ec1e53f229363a039e08107db9dd26 SHA-256: efe1c8bf65f06d6305af176e3315930e163ca4aadebee7c7029c67026133d3d4
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a pattern of using link farms on potentially compromised sites to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=qr+scanner+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/94552903080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/vuravazopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjucu9tejhcrncoq5jibsj4ko9/30364702915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76478690163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopurakivegadelopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/57967779077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136544d6c31a---kofaxizetomuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fabriziochessa.it/userfiles/file/37711660785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/96080362912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28934333573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599d063ada19baba8ed6ff28066bd43b/wejenovuzepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musclecar-taps.com/js/upload/files/mavuvewipabozikivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/13992038907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210902010017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36907253317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/85190919834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xebecdesign.com/xebec/userfiles/file/90012705466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210906232931_d0ezo2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/31409008848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsvforum.com/userfiles/file/42888878193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f60a859ffdceedac109859578305537/tolewupofosugixanuxujiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/28562702494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/63429111606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakaluroridotisowawi.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_off0000e6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B9 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 219fbceb017ceaae0920c4b4dd99b3d5ecc8d6b5cff76fb2b35fe8806b819327
font_01_sfnt_off0000fded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 850990836a56267e07cf808ae05ff07f3ba7df0b218bb798c2cecfb0fd0bc2e3