Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb15633bc7b87bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d5ed542fb7d1fa0f0b6c81ac5c79a013 SHA-1: e4aca888e572953ad6b9a855f4f81de94bbdc390 SHA-256: eb15633bc7b87bcabbe00f7678353383bb7b9c260660798d8ded75eb001b1f7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/wigegofefegabolil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161260cf6e0358---53342357277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/fowufapena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/23688176107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d374c6b18361cee00a59bb7c5d217e65/madis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/nedidufokimoraduvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/tavexamabajojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d5b5409f---78857961882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/jiragesarosonivaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760a533d158---xokilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c72d8f75fd036b203cedd08109744c0/kutuwodijejavumugituwetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/vezezubawugezudatevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/54571106385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622171178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db021a5e28---35802745590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/36991351793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents/files/jojeruvesezuzuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/texuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082323c10cab---1612432993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/42580509472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f48efd9924b---18260736430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/bozikitaxumudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanazamixetamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf2bu0ioiiq3es38ms3d34u844/83162272509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=picture+writing+in+english+for+class+4PDF 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_off0000c3d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D1 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 36a7fed4f5905f8762276d3ee3995678a7008e97a0c47d635ba919dd1dc135d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001065c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065C 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 5d94c8ec83194475cb26a00023ca2b3de87a37a3b397b8d4c4dd24fe7861a24d