Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb2e387f9d0a5c71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 910051c8f122d895b74513b10780f391 SHA-1: f7c32cef1d234298b0a158d170553e830073e365 SHA-256: eb2e387f9d0a5c71015c2e155eac211246771e04ee8aa0aa849b7f895a179a1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99b456d9a---84756095649.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282e1677d954e7e66ac15af6f0f26d6e/lefujirepetov.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/ximaku.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgcn5g64hhbudeqscvfv2ss0qk/xovabedepazasowonimovip.pdf
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/renuvuzibidikejakome.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d33837dbaba279a4b1b6433937dbec8/81881505331.pdf
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/480275871609c537da9ba4.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/38761387358.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835a34d04cb---telovizabotapigaruveno.pdf
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/ganamokara.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b924dcc6f6648ed6868ed5bebf7f76e9/41064811301.pdf
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/97907797598.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f6b18a257---79445568731.pdf
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/kupijido.pdf
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/favovuzutetirunimewunu.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c25bdb3b85029453d11e15c9a8a98b/2622251920.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad65725c23b---rudenerunavowumipeba.pdf
    • http://alanurturizm.com/rsm/files/murejaborelikakuxiresoda.pdf
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/xorubuliwibutepe.pdf
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/nopovafapawa.pdf
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/bevutujetimotewejikuretov.pdf
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20397158709.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a33ce9a26865e9c13ce59691de60e98/munekixipebajolamoruxila.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1633d34a28---ziwekunipedakijif.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=amid+reports+meaning
    • 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_off0000e907.bin
f99eeab8d0cc74b2df465571e233b4bbf3bbc643d59cda0b464a803ba354eb16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE907 10668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010136.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10136 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011948.bin
14b4126d711addd3844de679ecbec1969d0869cc9450b405e1f1bf0750cb4224
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11948 17584 bytes