Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efed929c504a0cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-06 00:23:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: eb5538a39537f6decff0436fccb0e4e5 SHA-1: a21a58a843a102f6fbe3b8b8d95974346f4b0b50 SHA-256: efed929c504a0cbe299089b51bcb4a4028913610b75fae2ecdb7bc85b99b5684
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external URLs, which are designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kayla+itsines+recipe+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7f0364539---80687447928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnow.jp/js/upload/files/wivibanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210718205040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/50693080626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/tepegopogenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/xusunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.39koratmachinery.com/file_upload/files/buseravukobizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/jejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/ligatupomekosifupuzowapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bc7392988---zanusijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0811dd8a94f823cce68edaad25155534/duludukepedutazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i26bggvvvqjk5sflcgjcg2cqku/kixuvasufipalonogumisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/68554155704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/58054042697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ri-rm.ru/userfiles/file/35508476020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/91747122201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c8d0251ffc44f7ef43b028ab33c6b5/48513118187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b6604fd46---58208598252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/87854137063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/bimitexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/vutagokaromanigebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c3a13e0f9---jogafavisorajukoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7714fb77b0---36167030824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/45138115736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756c17d08e4---48523884363.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_off0000d86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD86F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: f796554b677d3586fd9afc10268e5dcd519e8d5a489845e51a601b9327f5b8e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10942 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 3489501c864dc7240b8e1a5fed9357d8fae17e39859135cc6c29899a9312daa5