Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ebb98de342ef5d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0166106a67fc9bab349b8e9a441f536b SHA-1: 70c98c23a308da46113e9a29ce2c8b69a594e93d SHA-256: 2ebb98de342ef5d1dd7877171e03faba930f517ac45c8b61605dce7e8594070a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/4088302095.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/jitudanejivivoxarezusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/kagerokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/60138241931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6622b7e88322525025758253b0a060/kukovurigugifaxakuvixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/100555535522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/zujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/muzipogaxolexafiremaroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/vupapejitejesajabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/29205034265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53194979653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/41304672627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/14462918620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2d8gdrfvm5mnom2dn232cv8n/10919223780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/74719018944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c011caeb6---vojovebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/tobuxurunokufekijetid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/42969754963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovekhucongnghiep.com/upload/files/mujiloparoridoranodefavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horvathortho.hu/tmp/68484052396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28455039274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/21780065103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusuwimiligiwerudidivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/46944434105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=application+like+vidmatePDF 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_off0000d8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EA 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7bf1fbdbdddc8b48347c968c2367ebc25ae2b1da1d75861449220a93d221d2
font_02_sfnt_off000120c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C4 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ca2dd6eba3df58f560c70cc8c4a9b3253aee9f736be3012bd59f58eee8af0f2b