Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ebcb2a2da633448…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-10-03 17:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: aeb32b0217fcf61cac4964f31450615c SHA-1: ce2c8bff7a3183ee3282f533f724ea6c38fd48db SHA-256: 5ebcb2a2da6334487e22e96ef6f01eae010fee7a1e3c88f9167769a1c03e7402
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that act as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing and trojan activity. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+puppy+is+always+hungry PDF link annotation
    • http://ginkgokatsugg.com/uploads/files/94887178179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbiesites.com/userfiles/file/15754826361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85931852732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/35929502052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-23/20210923023740324719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo755.webbazaar.com/uploads/gokulidavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee2e812d18032398edf863c0ede228bc/luwumuzosivurewefipawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/97560691210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/96074204344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/davunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/dorevatipolimupulutixidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupixexulufosijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/67527691890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfsh9km86nf08vie165j0ebkn7/giloxuxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/24571014614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/44988525678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gains.kmvindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67612500101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50663328341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e178a8e9ad---9927728904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/92286966725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/57310143932.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_off0000acd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4EB 14384 bytes
SHA-256: d5c7bf755615d76047a91ceea02ea0e7ab2baeae7c6d457122529c3568e46fc4
font_02_sfnt_off0000e91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91F 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 6c79c5653d6b53fc85b6b76aea04200f1a65555e24f7d18562f3d141b81e90e8