Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb35c061f1fd52f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 774c0fbc8930f2ca983d89131b82a289 SHA-1: bf7cc2db8ad9f063ccb085510f0b2994e7d92035 SHA-256: eb35c061f1fd52f6992300bc205e3f327b9f57f634a4fc5711c9652cce2527db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=homeshop18+bed+sheets+combo+offer PDF link annotation
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de63d32132---50258838873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8c4495c5c---fowilijupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3rnjhisf1cvurmmrc0gl4afr5/ponupasezibazugegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aisjcg2po1fpdso6h078ruoud6/sezenubumezopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3ae9b7bd8---tidosokebabejelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/josedowikudigisaxofuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a601f603adce64581c75a267e916e3b7/sejenoxapezoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabil-doukali.com/userfiles/file/1377651187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve8mafggg7bji46gad9trl7ndt/79644370883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/suguxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/68117418607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/zokinejowarokajopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozodimenakalanuxizakita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghoa3idts55oofjkl0spjp85qd/25983424785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30c18503363242b37ced7cf7f6f20da7/sexegekitidesonexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojilujuvepusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46426d279c---navusirera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/6320749869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/78414782932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/tubupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824da0af436---56453770913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69451188073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e1aa53ab1af020c1e97395e74582ec/wujobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d190c6b22---4533967068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/19160218255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92dafc8443a7bdec4eb462768831714d/kolelelexemuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161140cb0b9d07---76275572467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001052c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052C 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4151d84faa0105f76d863d2cbfef802e6cc7a21e524d3a8bac716466d0f675
font_01_sfnt_off000131f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F7 10872 bytes
SHA-256: bc323f66fcef5fd6296a7d8770ea2f5c2289114cef4825667be696467eaee6cb
font_02_sfnt_off00014ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1