Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eb44dbda8b70311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-05-28 18:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 29f2c6ead884eb3cd8234a1af8193c13 SHA-1: e09f6d01c4bd34112d956e8bc3e792c500785bb8 SHA-256: 0eb44dbda8b703112fbd355c58d92f3172a97ef839501c97020c5c0a2bdb09b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains references to 'cheatbook database 2021' and 'wkhtmltopdf', likely serving as a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheatbook+database+2021+en+espa%25C3%25B1ol PDF link annotation
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0287d35bc---lumuzuvugarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf758ba08e16ef52869f2991ebb795e8/xekidipegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a1ma5b927rdq8hiig5ub41fvk/tarigarasufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7v237v8nrhbjesieuvehgkdbv/fogavurabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/39044405793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ea296ad82---28464936165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jvo6irg33gjqvtrjunvl5r3gq/koluzejilarasinimisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a982bf209414ecedf7b7a4ce50353b3/44774647671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df68828fd1723cf570a08553a57a84b2/dowiximozanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc3qvfssj1l43t000tjoeie54v/tezuzetonexuvavuwuseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/90594888496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmko9aa7q2thp669u61pt1c373/mapejebibevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d466973f1---zojazafodikegemonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9af7bcqkvh0luseap7tgk64m7/kegajademuwugiwepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/92779918267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/60330585402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD471 5596 bytes
SHA-256: fc0899c363284b278a96351a9317c99b83cb81f6625092c9b306672f843fffa5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE728 9988 bytes
SHA-256: ad2d9e6877f8d9943e1b3c8ea11da727154ac0807c669acb45ff5d07fa67dbcb