Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb51ac2a65d63f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-06 16:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bd6a41a183e511601cdf8c67df1e8050 SHA-1: ee16c95e90f5dbb37836041f6a77569c143050a1 SHA-256: 2eb51ac2a65d63f82d8870b717968ea7ba08f785edf8278f8ad2e1a3034eb8dc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites hosting further malicious PDFs. The presence of invoice or payment language suggests a phishing or scam lure, likely intended to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf47c4959a---43657503480.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpmi7aoqvosss0herg7hnc6seo/ganizakobibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410daf24de934571d25bb14beea165b0/xakonake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf409a73c9---luzitomaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de72318ccd9e56e8333f93d6e143aae1/giwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/20031203172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/sopufelafolabanukatupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0kbk3i0ivq12i6ltm3v95tnuk/pudodimijidoxinanixobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb70840e82---25028005899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32c358cd9---835266366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16518353059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/959736a09cb96e1558bad4024f9e1fdf/sasevebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b4787fc8b---xejunarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d65117179---12946062926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9052f7573d138e08c7fc35a8b76b8a76/88454913413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed33cf43877876ddad1402964c1c811/gexipebetixojitenivezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/marazebosefewemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/limenetisunarinexitevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/galelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a460f2383---14328610930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d42d2e53b7---powed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/72843973910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/bozunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/93986764613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e732c9cbbee9dcdf1ba5abd762377fb3/24521261002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cuanto+se+paga+de+tenencia+en+cdmxPDF 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_off0000f0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C7 10944 bytes
SHA-256: b97057b9e68641e3175d641fbc1c193f2d146612f1d796515b04a6261cc1eba8
font_01_sfnt_off000109ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FF 18672 bytes
SHA-256: d2969a1d595aa84b7cd3bb2db14c7fb394652782b0b520dd5507fe98ef674485
font_02_sfnt_off000139ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1