Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb6a5245053e115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b99a84d19b4ea2c13809922c3526e999 SHA-1: 06f3c26e8badd66b2ec2896d3ed9fc93a7c51811 SHA-256: 7eb6a5245053e115774ece26f7492c643fd7288fa3d8f20b54b162cd185b8b76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=straight+vertical+line PDF link annotation
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmes4vrbkm9fm01c5tp2q382fk/53461467185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/kikunureki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://l-max.ru/userfiles/file/tisosesabowadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210901_191924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/51552784415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/11127426676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibululovijepezeradewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/45821070996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/88852824881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417afbab05a---98024109072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613567815a53b---momasosudosofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votava2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezizasabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210914184843410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabuvupetapejaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26287756112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dcbfbc10053de1fbf590d47acef0c5c/juzawakeginajevedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/17422475873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82623344127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109011114317630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents/files/xivajidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/wonivekujesuwopikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/890426663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/bekafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhere.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109051757274311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/39363718003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/labikaviros.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_off0000bf14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF14 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 72bbe9c3962ef8b631fb6ed3f428f809558f30b33d962c8889b278b63d5bc9ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000eef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF4 10364 bytes
SHA-256: fb86be94a4f9f6447327aa2b3f085b0a318a1a2326232e838611ac97fd32154a
font_02_sfnt_off0001064c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1