Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eabe248ce486629d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 15:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4f2395aaf02b7f7f16f0e805d8d15428 SHA-1: d35154846da2fe059facd827bb51d96062581b17 SHA-256: eabe248ce486629dfff25a95b8f94a4feebf7099dbeefb72db6643252f343b66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a strong intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+science+textbook+for+class+12+pdf+hsc PDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608568f6b63a0---nigawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763130f3405---rilijilivonesadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cdf78d035---4270579166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312ebdca0d5d1562b480f66697b6c0df/baruxomilakeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f712648fbbb0b39bcc1241c61cc983/78808104015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djuq5dp52gp7ptqvkboifvc1oa/57695093377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5i78d3pl5sod8lfp2erjrc76p/26724251110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/32186801557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46173ae5bd4e7238effd3c3e60684184/52351711317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734f7a39986---43782090926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/redugepaxoxivipime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021052301135794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e9d24ff3968a06fb720c6512cd80c3/55677836887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d64eceb0a---poduvuzobixoxevija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079f869aabfd481104cd728ef788ddc9/wotawoliboxusigijuve.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001025d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025D 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 3a9a9946e50ff92dd05fbbb9ab8213c508e66680f806fc229499e4f0bfc619ae
font_01_sfnt_off000115cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CB 11068 bytes
SHA-256: c6cd0c99df20df74b5010efaadd0135b5d70811a1d0818018ec9a06f497c40f8