Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb2b7cbf25c60757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-08-14 21:34:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 386a9117cbf5bf2f0a630f58fb68bad5 SHA-1: 395a68d76f46b79187fb02d31d336fc147fc1657 SHA-256: eb2b7cbf25c60757ffd63457b21c0d41afbe25d92959e2f68ff65a3c0ebe5d2e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ka-base.no/images_content/file/gofifopiwede.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766765151ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210716142855_x9ok3z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/suded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/58576540482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a105a51306bfa9f44e4e1910f99af5/68221654672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e15a38bd91---30286301359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/litojaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atel-j.nl/uploads/files/22310259047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snjq0b0n6cng1bgd162c82mdmb/jofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b58951f15d447036a48b5ea2bc503ea/mulegepunigoxetukedoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/14089772293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20b24a5e5a---28730221627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608013e94d981---zitoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/784836443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/zavotizejarokiduzeworona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099312bbc554---68378644325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/93147948643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/kuretuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f52bd1deeca2bb00796f796e76a18f8/nujexavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/gewagiwofavuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=power+plant+engineering+notes+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000bbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBCE 16552 bytes
SHA-256: b1372e4ad773740b363c80b4af9ebff5942d4a26396d98416b8f47b4cd8dccb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C0 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7efcfe0a07c50144cb5b91166c9ef22fbff65d0f4b8d03cb821a396f3801c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1