Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe4f9960adc43b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

168.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 07:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: be86c3e471b5197134901b8ecac96bb8 SHA-1: 791c6df1ca9e25fad7acfbdde90a834168a2f1ae SHA-256: efe4f9960adc43b77fc7b4666448e7ce12d44471840d9ed94adfdba0be627e38
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. The document impersonates a signing service and lures the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URLs suggests a downloader or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9725

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context
  • 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.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c594fb65cec---digojokukulifipajazixunur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/36913568824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/89527822093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f29113b2a97---defowunulozunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m121g13qsmlgcu79f88tio25tb/82977186379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984098985f0---51055702092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210610_004503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d14s4m8q1ml3n8m5adpole6d64/vegejirotonetoniremulejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/73047004263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/953539b3853c9d110bf18c2f221556bf/sinisarusexosigosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/6404616537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429165803430320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyconnection.com/clients/f/f3/f37d50667a1bb99e511e26172889fab9/File/xurelawelunixelokobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/5373823865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emeulmaof2vl2da8396emi0p9g/wezexuronupamir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089561caf8d9---44416662946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbff0ce29b5a03bff81d1bd723b3f2f9/73744954156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607184d1d0579---foxoxapufejubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60rqfqr0olegnv6a3c7tsnaa61/59472460623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/86801039450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac95cf0fe5---dobosilufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=toolbox+for+minecraft+ios+freePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00021c1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21C1F 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 889f20df4575c1f841c04954c199bfb8def821ef02297f1f1e7595fe30c85575
font_01_sfnt_off00024c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24C82 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 385b3dd5e86ed94fb4b80ade34e94f1fef46c1c2ea20aceb104ed3d1ee67aab4
font_02_sfnt_off00026267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26267 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 31b898c2a03dda2795f6ef5a8fb7b43fe79ca360a895020c9b98f7d85c372590
font_03_sfnt_off00027afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27AFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1