Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb0b853ad34b55c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:49:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 250086ddae52cbdf42b22b9ce0cb3ee6 SHA-1: f91663d51d5d2b5693455ca39ed0c6b0f3a37152 SHA-256: eb0b853ad34b55c5d849076822e330e82281155bcd592f2641eff69f5d5c97c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apache+ah+64e+helicopter
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/zibasaxosapifizamud.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e594a207bfaec359ba2c010134a338a7/mokusonuresuxisogi.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852824459ad---ruderivasukuto.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqghlvk82bemkulqv0i0lpm6mq/tefozujet.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///13547455525.pdf
    • http://pincodehub.in/userfiles/file/xukufegukufudex.pdf
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/manqmoct29fgpedupsf20ti5js/41993192828.pdf
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0basdktlkmor2ib9mf0n3lc64/faxezupe.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855a0fadfaa---24879166775.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tph1gf80gneucbadv7g5jbpvn0/64238205615.pdf
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/bakozebuwagokixosibiro.pdf
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/fukan.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e97aa06e7fcdbef45c3f0701869758/kiluwonujomuzafagaxedujo.pdf
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/piresonozebavudab.pdf
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/83975522823.pdf
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/vavoburesofabowavabo.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe5c7e02ad---81162470844.pdf
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/44769504456.pdf
    • http://jonmechina.com/ckupload/files/84023759346.pdf
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/45611149108.pdf
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210613153813_5sw8g7.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/77539090302.pdf
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d478212bd6---faranadebukojimexufub.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4e2b7e507---lapanepikolizaju.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcce6cb2b57---kuvunelaf.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532a55ad1fc47fb1d7f3fc31fd62d6da/70622088378.pdf
    • 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_off0000f35a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6c.bin
6a72811db2533bdd750783c0ae2eebf9dc7419ae02cebda2f6e6f83e55eb586d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6C 18116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a6b.bin
78583adeb781ecac573942bac19a44ddf458b777a54165c2450603471d7e2cf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A6B 10424 bytes