Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb2c7d07402c5caf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 638100fd522511ea6fd2e620b38a6b34 SHA-1: e9380a6e1fd761186f3541dc0e31934038f53a56 SHA-256: eb2c7d07402c5cafdc3696cb24aec9be22524161b18f10013aa612d15ba0b985
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or using disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection as a phishing trojan strongly suggests an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites.

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 http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/zabobotas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilajoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/zekeligagikopotixapanapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/73521572066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160ba6a44cb9f9---lawasekimiwazepakogewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/juleretefojibegeterixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2n42gqprvupg5ijhd5kpd1p07/15652452180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a9120cdf5c6d380ca8fae2ff3f65f7/74885931816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salonrewards.ca/images/file/gawumikilosefaxoruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/zixugotaboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/35142351300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30492002948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d93e69a74b2e2238427fd5265db1474/5851178502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/44110942590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7f466b48f---kutuladabajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/18454767984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/xutoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ee0585133---kekaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/pefaxemujume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161198b3aa745a---konikonefisegugikuremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055df1bb915f2804cd82233c439b3b21/monulokowebigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee22614a3fe05644518f965bf3f32e6c/34750335920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/30093591483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782b731a6c0---gabokedikejijolaluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/9129015792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cara+mengemudi+mobil+manual+dengan+benarPDF 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_off0000f781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF781 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 781789b2acac2c8a8c561248140a60875701fc3b94d1cd3c8709d039080664f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5D 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 5e45ea77b41a221fbe5a8ce7e7f9c8f542943456cd22bb3947aa954694047fa7
font_02_sfnt_off00013a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1