Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ebcd5995cf68ac4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9e05b045170f35b3f2a44dc8c9bb3de5 SHA-1: e13a52ea046ee042ac66602e9abbc527b00412e4 SHA-256: 2ebcd5995cf68ac4158869fe54a3ff446cf7e3ab1ff46f485ccfb692d42050f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=changing+vehicle+registration PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/21855768577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///25568515145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/68430325803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8cafcacb18---87933723139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/31450229852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/1011289763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/87009375294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/judanegugajopesopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fa900ad632d7c6173846c0342790df3/gisasiresupotafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/4322675862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a8aa52d75---temegubobonawuxapovikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/60943104762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6d35e3bc5276c770a63299cfe21b5e/lanilaxagonudorekuwolisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/zewepunavodemiwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonemazefipeliwoxufadugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc3d69705c---pijefegobobasowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/puxinaniwafibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/758115019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/59622695731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4700316e5a2586851ac033906ad4a19/velilafakelegefitiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip9k3rb1pjrn7pik4dascvhtin/xoxodovafosodumixedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d02cca4f044a5be8c5ac16ae55cb7b/2867213655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/5992678499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c21ec9b0df5d476e0da229a85d1a70d/16243079619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/80328086276.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_off0000d241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD241 16732 bytes
SHA-256: aa9e9e1f9146beba59a2d209f1d7029b700ab3c610ad896ee2899936e8beaf34
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC5 10608 bytes
SHA-256: c6d9f6470f6a51a84f243e20f1cf7355927782c1ef1b121358074d6e02657fe9
font_02_sfnt_off00011508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11508 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1