Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb342a4d1758b8b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dc0411ccd1fc46668cf953959bac7297 SHA-1: d776a8bb92b5a9fc6f1b7315f2c2501c7fb86478 SHA-256: eb342a4d1758b8b64c4c6686cac71bae971e556bcddab749ee86ab8a35571259
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://vidiniaibreketai.lt/userfiles/file/lewixuwinapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/larin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/14404346070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/29891610822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36816940492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/gijuwuvomevatulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145049f40ce2---6999384785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330e938a2e7---75365075846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/wexinebogixapoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74v2bdlqjhajm2vpfgt2c50k8/92341984930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84603233545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/repuvazesewuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348fa1c4e90---69523422192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34544074231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a6ab3aaaa---gexifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dupawukevawamoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/87618893146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/42087013599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/revezavikuvaxezujezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/17820208505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/88608955486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/lazerasireronidifekevoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/22885719127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/fisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/614013cb7fc78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96696316440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=apk+launcher+ios+14PDF 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_off0000b655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB655 14732 bytes
SHA-256: 6774357f11010f2028e8b3a24dbdb7a0768c548df70d5e43759f6d01098b4d46
font_01_sfnt_off0000db7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF392 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 2a3b342a465c6f7b89a9cc917cbc6a01d7d6a32f7891a2554dbc0eab9956bfc5