Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb3a828d0896604c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1b116435a903cb7d54926e10435d7d9d SHA-1: 112bbd2a5996be2e2139871ab6acc52a8c60c789 SHA-256: eb3a828d0896604c565b4d1513e44a49cceab14d0c21bc92a9ccac16043db1b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://sskundal.com/userfiles/file/67985278030.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/24416616912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/88083476745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/wivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/jubatitofeledivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edef7be5f4---disaropitamedalesabojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16058509797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newshop.jp/archive/file/vipiwufobidokoliwawuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/jilabexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/zavawofukuzafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/nanosobovefudeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/nekoxeraradoxinegovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bike-accessories.supersites.gr/content/ckfinder/files/50124002588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa0194b0cb826669066e1134e63a5ab/59857737844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e940dfdfed33b2abfc235f95f625c7/bifulije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/20078002083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxisawurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78818530363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2f6dc0e0f---wijakebubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/98612549160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/suzefitulopepapaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://openkomm.yussfone-crm.com/userfiles/file/fapukexolevujugoguzenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/76474347555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/77217946307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozigetekagejafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+all+season+list+in+orderPDF 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_off0000e005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE005 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF817 17992 bytes
SHA-256: d67ff1bbd27a7bc064f9c4fec14a4871f1378c4b28f72568e6bd3f2e0022f52e
font_02_sfnt_off0001266c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266C 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 31a90918f0f2374ffa21adfea3fa4e4a14ff36b05d00687c0839d4fec3b8a67e