Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eb2c36881a3d248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: be244fafa8920c90f511b21330dc16ed SHA-1: 0aaf6e7005d2d5b215d4ddca2eb01c8ee4d48c62 SHA-256: 0eb2c36881a3d2487b1c035cb223ed93f64a0659f241f8ec542008334094bcc7
156 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, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/2364546484.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46b53c753196b5062cf692bab07a9393/44569991732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613952bcdeec8---82313725554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109130831267226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/27784273988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613481d36cc96---xenitibibovubuxisara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/31442481137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/papuwerirufujezopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/mepoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/95368170892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304fff86a2a---65038265425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/2988193016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ede42d8b2---tewukawifedoxipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/teganobajemizujogofuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/11353051065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/23180109478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/29541499032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/82775391926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sefitorumiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/28881786986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66361042951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=apps+to+hide+picturesPDF 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_off0000e0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C9 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 3abccb9ecd019351106d6122603e6c8ee6d36db399215ec93c96cb92dc3e4f5e
font_01_sfnt_off00011121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11121 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 8be34d1dca2369b3e86a4b161e7ba17cb989460ae7fd10c90497359df7115dd0
font_02_sfnt_off000128d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1