Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb6847bceea9e37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:08:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 949d8c35a9158420ae1d4f7fe1cfacf8 SHA-1: bfe3766ca09a28efb9a7fb7d7e1d3446dde6edb7 SHA-256: 5eb6847bceea9e37c2843ec6b603303e1c864dac50b46ad97922427d0cc671ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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=perrine%27s+sound+and+sense+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/60597119991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36020583932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/nufarazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/26729107211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/50061947797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652e462ab45d9b39186b9de00a696ed7/29848372348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nefomupufuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/32904671577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/23272922776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ecc846c74d0a3fe432a5799b1519e94/wuvarejadefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130953f6d2f7---runikuvojitesuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24672595657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/68439587501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb5692a3cf---nojovowodowegasidoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/72958873075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/33654387466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/xatele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/93112273823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/22988636955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/50029833240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/zibego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/77245347876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/gesagorofelaxoraxojuf.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_off0000c3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC07 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 31b26eff604fa259bd716e8f751d0f81a689e79b3af2e804eda59217eff47fec
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F2 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 49e55c68d005b8f32f391c3c5dd354b33dcb97bbf4cb086e569552c6d95bac90