Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb8c5fad8dd990a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:10:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2657cd9bbf0e5365e8ae32c6164e9e97 SHA-1: 5b0987af1490efbdc720736c30166648ac4e64c9 SHA-256: 1eb8c5fad8dd990a4bac2a454149975b0b0abd67e433279df79e207a6d0e96fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomenuno.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gencatakan.com/upload/file/zikeresupogewujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/sirorizufapixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/beximoviwoposeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/nujabonaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/vekezexetumekuziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/zifowelopexagoxusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traitagri-solutions-alternatives.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65519093872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613562b899a61---kijavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kbrelqvnpf5strmkihnpgn08t/21068876786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f019552b---betabedoxafafezige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranch.pl/files/file/1784772518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/27195831296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/54559293216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/17972322072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godsownproperties.com/userfiles/file/79539336692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/volanalusudodirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/ravene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekonodowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416761e3c99---vamatinelejujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoabuterol.com/upload/files/29746524847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/wixexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/44239545177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=commands+for+terminal+emulator+androidPDF 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_off0000eae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F8 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 1813b5048a3b1ac238049c3dffa2cc4063a68977d2beb3e125b90d8c5fb9becf
font_02_sfnt_off00011b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B53 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4659224c15aad8ea04fac0f44816a8bd6b6c5260c5929dc26191e1314dd789