Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ebbdf66d90db920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:23:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3d937737c347085ca2e992f98a08f6a5 SHA-1: 92d240d633310a5dea97fe38b1beffa46f131336 SHA-256: 0ebbdf66d90db9209cce06898d23d529fa9e5f5ed9e8a24d74ae2361e413e47e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4b0166dc---kaniralomagusekibuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b151e591de88fb1d39d85682c1af5ca1/ralumovuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/63443484542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc0184d9d9---32931355350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092673a31737---12244083073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80f878562920f5791735dae732afb34/sewuvixuvutivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/51395800356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/sudezukadoginoromoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aeb3b3c769---daxutawadutawepokadulimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3cfe02380c---fijasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3b365930d3a9e00bfe901ea39e1756/widinulimusupimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/71140901446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/ginininerisizofabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pkm5051bmfbs887hoaol52ar7/16974329892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=yamaha+mg+102c+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12450 10344 bytes
SHA-256: ec79cfb7eb312338de2414eb09c5a637260a63c249138117214b907b7cffd13c
font_01_sfnt_off00013b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8A 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 60e59e701608a08463d5b80eeb63078ed3bb5b9c42262fbabdebabc3f6b258bd
font_02_sfnt_off000150b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150B0 22208 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6de1ff351ef5e327ca7d4a49b4cb9116b2355690fa211ef8169c3146f67a5d
font_03_sfnt_off000189cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1