Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb9ffb323fd7c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 17:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f6144b1c6e48bbf87d280f26b14d1d02 SHA-1: 0773114d6f1d15ea4a026a1eb87d35498125c2db SHA-256: 2eb9ffb323fd7c0dea6ef7d57625bf7c339393bf275cc736ed428c879dfdffe8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=training+of+the+american+actor+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c6bde1228---99802739765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb9a66c29044f05a7210b5e6634c8c0/tixadenonupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/gemifuvelonaxuleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffdc989942---wilelibipudirekiporewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607859d14267b---rilevosufafopukuwozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdlnl1npbl5aj15q0mbsgcrdhp/61173721240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b68cce11a7772e5d62c3af43a8ac81e/36974408849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/87271783277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/8492246387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/69663469184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granchefpremiumfood.it/file/weves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/23674706205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45d0763e76---rixevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd34vb8is7k6ov6031no997s9l/36396634217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/21851473550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f3bb292d5---13263063035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/93295343618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59513db39d---lapuluvopevegagisalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6a9ccd777---71071361873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9540731b4885100ec40c0416f0afd4/13957677118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0a8e920ffd---nekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/bamedujida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda70782c8c---34832408310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE647 17476 bytes
SHA-256: b4a6da0ea17859b4160d4b51f52bde8fd2cd59517f2359b54a729b3296d05d4e
font_01_sfnt_off0001141d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141D 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9ce4f742a6e02c86c47833c49d0457c167ab5a354b32c3fd0b2343e3891351
font_02_sfnt_off00012ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1