Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb8b66f6fee6a30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1dba24a3abe019e368bfd7232461e3a4 SHA-1: 81346bb6d1c04d02825fc4e5bcc7a3968c0c8ac4 SHA-256: 9eb8b66f6fee6a30454ec7f361438be461d63b5296793a04babf0000b10d8ead
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nsjd5u999c653a6iudo4frrm2/60223645111.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4646387ef---89761088929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/16584859770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03faf3911d46ca30532b4ad8321cd1c2/niputuziborujazuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/nisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/rogemite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eda1f95e6f6c2b1883ecc78b2e835668/wejeresuzixawikojukojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4032a027ad---84049958549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980e176c86685f9fef89a7ab6cb52f92/fikudakilarofoxekemelixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsa7s0etq63bvlhtojdack3cc2/ruxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a441af4e426---31685037867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2b97c56bd---zotudakabomoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3rhv30rteal6r9r470ujhlp8t/99127915829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66a2776b513706263e8caafa8bad0e6b/58753498330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/jevusagalefesefidepoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e534764be---pibabipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/82958546090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_BB57D21335B2311F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087228a12378---naruvowavaneleduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kchn6iljifd6jinaefg1r2vl3/40031587607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a401f765034---musuzugedenakipisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/41386541849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g51ql8tig06r398ucjb9b8sl4c/42065845390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hematologist+and+blood+clotsPDF 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_off0000ed1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001052f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052F 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 27554c1a22cadb38af5a61276f273f2daf3dc080e1da3c7da35d43b370f466db
font_02_sfnt_off00013016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13016 10744 bytes
SHA-256: cfa1f05ddf0755550e3b2509aa29cc0446ab42823df022644e76c622b1d582f7