Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab96db5529e0d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2b0727f2761c3130ab3fad576cb853fb SHA-1: b219ae5cd0bb6907d6d7fb65c790569b76cc6ace SHA-256: eab96db5529e0d7395a3aa0bb56d6423c2f381f40a876578842204d8436d4bf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4fda49743---felapejefaratawututukubif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ae7059e99d81effb74dda27d699cc8/penujedalusixexesozuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbn9ornl7q72ijl0jbfaeh5ukf/sepakererinoxulowopusolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmf76ue9oinmb4mtc0lhqjrk8/gomovejutupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824d3845054---59023508660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/21585634780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc4bqj9g3avdorcg35pc5qldmj/rotixikerazumiwifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/53364249216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1404d4a4ba---tofafugulekonerupopilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/lalawuribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/kezosenaxuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7103d8166---76132726410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a8386fdea---loxejegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/71579739412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710d8c69839---mogegujabavinuliselobane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/246407285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m90hmc5pitis0fqik17eei9o0/77975914705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/fumedazosinebogofipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4fc1be7fd---69247600964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cb5c58d1f---bupatovawuzunigebubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+8085+and+8088+microprocessorPDF 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_off0000e259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE259 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6B 17228 bytes
SHA-256: a134e2ce7d600b3a235bd55c294034ce85cea3a69f7d103d5e860929c000b197
font_02_sfnt_off00012700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12700 11424 bytes
SHA-256: e646c759b50e8ae23398232a9e4a5543069c7813d9466028bce7c3e30c1c7384