Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efed6e53b02cbcca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:44:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 53e16a90b040aa546d7558bfd29bdfbd SHA-1: 889a8106e897bbb881e2ec0bc1d6da13717d6c24 SHA-256: efed6e53b02cbcca5a7793cad621a316ac39740eaa8d36bc5fba91696d317069
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware, leveraging the 'Spearphishing Attachment' and 'Malicious Link' attack patterns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c9060c8167bb7ed6f4ab812d63acba7/95131176547.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087d69ef5d0b6160b9257925298f5162/52928401588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad39aab2b97---gibase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbff57dadb7---jutukimevalilopazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c799e80a9d6---72925903987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f490b7c7e---jivovazapexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed3fd60493---10206606424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c0c91ae7e14e71ad0845cf9dc35261/69033306973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105f4af3e61e---xeponigojonope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unl0f6mteiojtam1v6a99gvgnv/67274222060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84309bcf60---91415528993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/7600056762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/42805406523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/43479864663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/bijijoresuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmfnepal.org/userfiles/files/xamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/6761967227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/38161528439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c806508351---bujifuxaziziwudifojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/deneruxifuzevosixufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/razen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/93469873178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18961029028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab6ee73bdd---fisifoxagodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=children%27s+tylenol+dosage+chart+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_off0000e708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE708 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 95f1ed9a64c39e80ff5325dec1702a9e8bb7d5297a9d4f2dc6577a63021b6fcb
font_02_sfnt_off000118c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C3 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 4018a41651b879b4b187e5bcc2894353dc638638e898766222029d0baa870e0e