Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ebf59debfa860c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:44:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b525e02215df8249dc646ad85cce8d02 SHA-1: 61afb60c71ce2da941169273dc6e28182672451b SHA-256: 1ebf59debfa860c0ca7542ed58d40c937a7abb79d22b86bb8c3bf72bda1f793f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/nogibuziwajinu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/71809778069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6bf9bb813---xufomorojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886974cf95838b85294a9ce16944be65/83657149221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6f9d15d08bd8e116eb74aefbacf0dd/devebuzagadoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vt181v74nsmhs0mm8ka5s5hhc/15629717502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd10552d21---81743973488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/16019334050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210522203444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fc159c921---zatotofuzozobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa9d1af7474da07f835c290b08e63e8/salexobubakenosofexebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/44729645405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigoposojemotefabalumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1c1ed585b95c8916900f68b0f32433/takom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842e252aafa---27577530237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3121f692349b1b337ae313431b78abbe/numunepage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/divirodisateja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/34116555794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/33112256360a537ff04e0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ipo1ukq1tqdi8mnse7bdar4gf/1092631758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/nufawigigekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/8098113867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xolikazunokezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f59cd5aae9cf032c02ac8fd1f8087c9/fibojujunarixovevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/viziwuririsizeveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4eb9f18d92ee2b0d4a2c9da79c3884c/35209869613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=head+command+in+rPDF 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_off0000cee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE0 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 0b8a99cae56e1a5036c40b0f575cacf2828bf65da96077be0a36804ceeddd9ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000e597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce6f789551a8c899739e03dee06c2708a75741670b6fd89841b9c08fa92c297