Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eb8f02ff1fcbaee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:55:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 37fce31122aeb20fd556a9af9c30ef76 SHA-1: 37cf0c8d71d61ca87813db9ed2a91c2f9e72de42 SHA-256: 0eb8f02ff1fcbaee24cad6d23dd8800304ef319f85f9a4aaf12d5b1a690a2d1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially untrusted sources, supports the classification as a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://kezheng.net/Upload/file/339806099.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/93621855799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba1c7dfda4---ludunupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/zipawapirepiturowelisoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/pifegabefofomipixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/buxalikamajaxamevarerego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50280352163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/26872928934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/86912347825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbqkb72pr3q8aridnhr0n9dhel/gekukasavufitewodaxutaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a48decdfb6ae897d43f29bbbcaaf7b/fefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefakiwijalukekerogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/401841809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d87241ca731d7d500c7c5c41f9f3f1/remevizazevodakata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/44269002431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/78032196212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/wubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/memajuxaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/31718932429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db246a7f0b---medirisuralumidegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/81304884475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/tafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/ruvibosodutoweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608263591ac93---67578187736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=four+shadows+wineryPDF 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_off0000e7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BC 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 76a150b833d24575b5791c1075e36ddbc6355215e65db49777f1d6c30dd61681
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF87 19196 bytes
SHA-256: 9c1a595bc9d28d4b2d5d1b4c617a4f75535dc441a932bb0d7fe9a37573d1b37b
font_02_sfnt_off000131b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1