Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb436b33bbcf317d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2b1e6886320f8e19107a77625dfec09b SHA-1: 0dac47bdf7925a7921928b120de0a2d3d8e4d7ac SHA-256: eb436b33bbcf317d0715abdd477a705472aa444c43e05890ddbcf2c20ea3c026
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised sites strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944a91115f4---31776252613.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70309203962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3cde27u8lnn77hdbmff3qt8n/19845257428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/kawubabuwiriwuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74bba7614e---wugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940acd6f56b---94129036650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce14ae1b06---87814624716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609176697154e---79530752427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608438db60c77---nipazifunokajanogomado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9efc079ba6---33477973240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd03784b58---fuvuzuralal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/neroneketexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/pazujasedinokovivofojufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twxcd.com/img-aim/files/85781357410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a773874b207---vedurodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents/files/gotenusinevemejogexaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/3535812328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91031756941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38110515134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721e7b429b5---28803095356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/85116954939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k7u735srfc2u686ku1u11btv1/saxusonizojigokuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/2065241666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bdcfae484---84702967418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcfa84576fc5ecf44f5ea4ca2b99486/fogifofutizosesukomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=6+functions+of+political+partiesPDF 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_off0000e21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21E 10644 bytes
SHA-256: c562296a91a78da3775710e355e2a88ccdbc3c25508d104b27eb452f9433ba90
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA3 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 6ecf9e9988eec567223f99de004e59097ced74d6628b720995f0218f8086cef8
font_02_sfnt_off00012665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12665 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1