Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb05565e14402a1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 06:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1a024573ccbe2b28c0ab20bfaf72d64e SHA-1: d82ed7034ce787bbef44d63a5d3e526031ff8edc SHA-256: eb05565e14402a1b979732b424e75115a308cbecc090c2fe63e6ea071f3052f7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, many of which are structured as link farms. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=omsi+2+bus+simulator+pc+game+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925cc428a4a---38119989498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/8083143534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/benexiwiwijisojivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/90184926457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/54938699413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/vefosudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/kipidagikukinadenawona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f63e858f08---78776908982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/51874534098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0264368ba4cb717b671916f299a7336e/4211708048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc235ea5f60---38940386404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/wozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/46904986653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/03125442984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/velinubikejawagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161001f6cd0f85---6770048447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aad08ffa0---rujumowudufizibafoxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/purixiwezirakuzerolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/zorozobowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/71376919931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/67404306368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/fegowixexiwepenuparekofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160def2062ef53---fujiwagafixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25bd3547bf---20325401464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/40600274240.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_off0000d8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DB 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 6809c045d157eb796c6fed002822b9ef9dc04361893b6278a212e2bf884175e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33A 17112 bytes
SHA-256: c5a7b809b83b4420e4996c3da29ec066f63747f0d4f04d6276a18853c138a1e2
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1