Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb88135fe22051f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4c604ae2963819a8869f9fb92137dae7 SHA-1: 2dbdbdfa0b6de3f06260c65f58a1bc50ee0c38e2 SHA-256: 4eb88135fe22051f11b87016455a9dad2b8eb6e5d2b3054386ab7e178f1f640b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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 http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/diludorufipanawovewipasab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/34420199363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff66600e3gui65paemgu2d2960/mujinesatoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ec0d4eec5f76b0d53a43e2fe521cb2/nogexusimuvuzesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/41443461169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/64513955245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd0118ee6d---34984338036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e7ba192c6178599d17670bc6473b6d/bolabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78368467257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/vugepulanoridowiwevedetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/52788321358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/89344884704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacsanmyhuongbeti.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/43941340298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed8513014---62102189627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/28520361734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d49488663f---kawujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didogojode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iccm2docri2402nake0mnaq1r1/vajosogovoxutawaguwuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89744bef6d2a4d715d78029e6abb55a0/62837828103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/zulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/56832719744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609020524ba8f---pelirosibixiboluzoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/26548571489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa343fa5076---silegegabaleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/waluxovuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0239a3eb18adeac7ca06ca22128631/gilosiguwixesomagefodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=you+make+me+wanna+one+more+nightPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e67f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67F 3328 bytes
SHA-256: 81186e7b84e2a43daa4effb2fc01fb1d2c8ff1b46a94cf4fc9b5159f025ba713
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38B 26100 bytes
SHA-256: dcf7492d0b1c30fc7ac1413cbcb3810a4241438428afd35fb39517a7ca5e9707
font_02_sfnt_off00012a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7A 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0887d6041c057c866980efe423f950f55e1178d7f6295bb7c464e195df6e77c0
font_03_sfnt_off0001428b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1