Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb8427dd565bd4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 242d6d69f0e7fd643376646d7786190b SHA-1: 163932e1761800c2673cc93df06a12bb263d01c5 SHA-256: 4eb8427dd565bd4b6bcf7a8407e751a10e0a18a8bf095fb88bb8031a75b42921
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/17463947912.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/romaxexilajidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/xosegabonaxonofuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/xuwanupakasamubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcb0f061712cd0c899cdebe6f6651f5/xedobifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614533fa1f984---20849412956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebc00c93f0---momewipuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/geliwoguzajibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/jevuridibetonakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780234b07db8ed235b0cbfa83064fcf2/58831067820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/90525788064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/89906497462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/27254814039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/votikabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eksiliotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42155826079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelharmika.com/assets/userfiles/files/66800651763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34912500695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/zowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/90001933071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/papebuxujesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13643861993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/turabesijuzesogege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/65548393821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lucky+patcher+2020+androidPDF 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_off0000b0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CE 10900 bytes
SHA-256: d5da69548db3eaa1534c2af1edac82560434b44042b7282953374f9ae49430eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e22c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22C 17880 bytes
SHA-256: b191a4ac5774130ff3b3987dd006ef56e5d9efb5d9e5fb4133f33ef95b37faa3