Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb1463bd4856a3ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-10-19 17:27:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 113fef4a87289d220ef52a5e4c07615a SHA-1: 142c8a8dc331b21fdbeb881c297b38d5093a90ee SHA-256: eb1463bd4856a3eac44244965db505cee4b73004edd0d030b4411a9c2af28faa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate these links are designed to lead users to other PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/zuxabozebusanuvoligap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202109160706503971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramkgres.ru/userfiles/file/poliwejabuzomivanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16166427932cf7---dumetikelifasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alidongdong.coco1490.com/upload/file_folder/file/jukavumevufasafepegupofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/19927501211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/90674378280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6977346806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/85115828872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/13661102361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/24139955247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73020004234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/pamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83730854765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/mafowupetudefowanitutejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616648bf9a113---37825946843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-26/20210926044857926986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibjdneni5bal51sha7g6r935k4/43877836194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/39150190861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/83262849647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cegled.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/kejupupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikigixogerenoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/22072679793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/losapoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueleaves.ru/userfiles/file/dinogovalepigisetotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/tgwjJlsMqHc/uplcv?utm_term=human+psychology+books+in+hindi+pdfPDF 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_off0000df0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0B 20576 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6cd1bcc6ebf90e16c802fbf8a6ed6c25c5131d31bd24fb219dcd9f66401d6a
font_01_sfnt_off00011375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11375 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8C 11176 bytes
SHA-256: c5b79d286c4bd784eb0b1280584bfaf66d9a59fd19bdace6e2b813fe5c7b6139