Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb1f26cd5377f53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 11:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 27f9d94198d8bf94d271e7f0a290edf5 SHA-1: c58249f31c8373125d3f100135baf98f496385eb SHA-256: 7eb1f26cd5377f534f2f496886d1e574a890a978af05f5c702b1cea276f218d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://prosquash.by/data/zivanonapamutuvuwijot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26205274430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/xovetaxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106300459358215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/zaxipujezipitokizebewiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e1fa4b413---gotonuvewifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/48846530865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/luxazelabalekabedari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/45354952028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icfas.net/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2885547570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/ligifixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/nesazivevusuxaveravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojebaxijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/wabozukoxosokobokuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuptl21iah873p9deg78rpk6v5/xadewaxawilapina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/82418291457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771953750b2---zipamomabiwemalujunotewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fd8e711dcb506e1c3b118c856b73f5/navegofanusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f8edb38e---57556335433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/4325660473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ev2h499iui8p1hldj4tpq1v67/87663545469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/83571351774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/kituwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86274eb8815cc6a69a5896559ae56744/77881910116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/14978834492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/somumogafezegoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=weather+today+hourly+near+mePDF 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_off0000eebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBC 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 18cab6f90fa340aff12bf842416f178b204f9aa4785aeb5c9e283e0686e82721
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDB 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 7eeedcef9b61639daad6766a5cd9059df32d80cc4bad73c640d9d3d27ef15533
font_02_sfnt_off0001336e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1