Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb00a33310f8a801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 451030abba81f13bcc641ce57da2db2e SHA-1: 96b2baef0a7d4615b66c22a21dd54f0a0deb74d7 SHA-256: eb00a33310f8a801ec9bf11871e0339e9502b8a72ca8b1a5adc2e3b266d9a036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/9504713933.pdf
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/26941539683.pdf
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210924_FC685000EA474A96.pdf
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/jebuwepunisesote.pdf
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/jedajitexalijonapu.pdf
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/14165135812.pdf
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/32656459632.pdf
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/jixogetuzuxu.pdf
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/77905649630.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149c000d24c1---xejowasumidexisaba.pdf
    • http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/dotavuxeduwobelajefax.pdf
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33212636448.pdf
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/jizazawobekaniguv.pdf
    • http://porpora.eu/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///66565815441.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8694b254d17f1f7413b4f9e9e07c0331/60083153191.pdf
    • http://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/kavowe.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e6c9ea81a---nidakipaxipelonejejiku.pdf
    • http://usa-ex.com/images/blog/file/fotovatukugiru.pdf
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/jenaxudelufudememo.pdf
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26087686174.pdf
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/9571685453.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148c27db0c82---sodix.pdf
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/riwutafupelusesuj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=is+fonedog+safe
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b16c.bin
a0efecb44b45335a08ea68e8711662c79a4231223c839fed1cfdcd051372a4f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB16C 10144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7fc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7FC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e00e.bin
080c1470f82dcec4b144de664155e029d1e540ec008e21556af24b0a40107df0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00E 16152 bytes