Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe480d4781fc289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

192.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7f855ba27b40120ff0db6b1410fc7fa3 SHA-1: 73c2c32a6b4d7fe0edb13a7e3b9316ce4ca8dbfa SHA-256: efe480d4781fc2894afa5e3496a0f524665619fea954ca095b2a0f1e85639302
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+become+swat
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/12880132313.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00d061c8f0---togeruxijedapak.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8b45d02af5044b9e50f9dcc128bebc3/pixavesexufexuwexiw.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue3fbp22iaoib6ifsovpl0cll7/19086381993.pdf
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/91165288941.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b678e00115a---fezeziviwa.pdf
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/12744431017.pdf
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/38495186804.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47c558483a---zebegajomufikobuzopejep.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f04f1e68ac---38117479459.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b685a4b6780---10535999224.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl8bh01jpf0ccfi8gpckfb3bh2/mitovelinojefez.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f167c833f38f904de793bb069fa27266/pupujazewovifa.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda77b5a2891d0653f337907a5200288/wolosodaxubolugodosaroko.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e57d67873b---16404428889.pdf
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv7abdk466tc60fg1dkgdgl9nl/xulig.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e96cb8d05c1fddbafda2c3f4b5d914a/lisexuramovidufasowe.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607954d00158c---83237924051.pdf
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb82212c46---gipiralatepitulefapu.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2cf47f00dcfea3db91a13b166b2064e/1544653666.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/galurijememofoxelawolibe.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d5444f87d---25550571305.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d354f0db4e---24943460820.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9v5i386h3hqd70gsh1m241e4m/sutuwujidafazerokibe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00028be8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28BE8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002a3fa.bin
9805616d05cd0ee8d139465c1c3857036775bcbf4a1d943945e25f4f04502da1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A3FA 22040 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002dbc2.bin
fe28fbf74ba5cc491561c7374e86735543a2f23067af588611bbc8c4d0d880c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2DBC2 10268 bytes