Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eb66a2ac5bb8100…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 22:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8d8dec3fc077382e1bd35ce8fe4c5c76 SHA-1: d1d323ec1cebb356c442d5d9df84f6d906a085e3 SHA-256: 0eb66a2ac5bb8100b97a5c0ce49c165b2283be341578486baabc43e52ee78361
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains multiple links to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/436111461.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/93830529496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/32758007628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/24091448358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/naguvosowisusarururikimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97127216295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/vetetoziwenabutelivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927fb35d273---73294521724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ddc81b0ea---1369088292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c1bc4e0c---67923242947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088944640702---foretimibazoxekulapesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/30628963415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c04dc8a554---57473787686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/dorelopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7835605b4e---larebinenovapixudaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/9260311001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db96e45b123---wazesivijegozejosewapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87147868850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/savulivalakewureviwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpkbsapsj7pj1fe3sv2guhu5s2/73998668558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l17qdv1ofqgf7jv444e3ilbr3e/12023772970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/82231582501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/25990269051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=why+can%27t+unemployment+verify+my+identityPDF 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_off0000f948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF948 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001115a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1115A 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc78c3bd8b1dc54fddce22077f1e961b09bf2f39742048cfe7f0b0ad385fcf3
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED0 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 2854ec52fc43b90870a3777a938fcc7991e44ed1be8158b2a41c5b3a34567474