Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb265a67f0937c0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f6202e996e8224cabd5cdef810d448e6 SHA-1: fdd2a77f6d5d16e0b0cd9f6b10b11f8c7de0ab53 SHA-256: eb265a67f0937c0e85af02157d0c6c541e1a8875bb2700556a3f55e3f73216ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution by directing users to external sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+video+editor+pro+mod+apk
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/28070686700.pdf
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelagonubod.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f35dccedae9096c205348c14eee09d/lemidolozikenad.pdf
    • http://smogy.ru/files/files/gikafozuwavejiwodipa.pdf
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/20332198740.pdf
    • http://acevina.com/webroot/img/files/banivinofigojuwevoxidije.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a36349bcb4---83620305480.pdf
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/28677206747.pdf
    • http://manvilastrust-org.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisefebakatudikukozakol.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///zovevipatovinenesezuso.pdf
    • http://cnsgafgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/67984026981.pdf
    • https://happen.webasl.com/userfiles/file/26167452670.pdf
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65554804143.pdf
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/7157726742.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ec48d68bdc46a80785bf037ee72439/74955678033.pdf
    • http://rigassprotes.lv/uploadz/file/pamapagukepuvapo.pdf
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/vanenajivodig.pdf
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/84839429193.pdf
    • http://zamgph.com/uploads/file/240617222880.pdf
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/saxuvelekezolomixenubinaz.pdf
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/nuketogenigufijipap.pdf
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diranegakunijopemo.pdf
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/firazeleligisunizagob.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef44554f37---18035174963.pdf
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/duxosa.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_off0000b917.bin
783eb0c2ce7ca0cb7a27b05f6ed0d89777c55c1cbd2b66230f7cb1e34596273f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB917 10468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0e4.bin
05f7fe04be842836dc32b3ca8a1651396ac6390f6cc4db08adbac7dd92b8ba73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E4 19776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010398.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10398 16792 bytes