Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb44938bbb14817d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6be1ec9321d28e96d9a8a148cc981bd9 SHA-1: e58b6a4b2581a3f9c7a30b6c477937c764677b7b SHA-256: eb44938bbb14817dccc08f90d1dfb14455f157a9a31c39443da7dc15594fe339
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content through deceptive links. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c51be6e97---sigapigive.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/vugenobeninatififitami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/raretoxoduxenagevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f7f969da7---zuturetuxudakuzebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/45053460401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/sekamaxutebanawavogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/25695054841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77664952209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/melavekonumebatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/97666199784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbrasil.com/userfiles/file///bebixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/rexilusadagapukasizuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s58rg0hki6ka3eviq6lvpmvuib/waladokabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/dexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090803601916---xozededopasiwukalifubonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d3c687030ff128c85440f079f005b8/zarivovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adih0jsrpv8sj1hsoolbb22qh5/dewuzumiduvitomorela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2840lc0ugcpbkg0v9gusmc6u2/4512322648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7c803eb81---legezasutukufekigafegelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/sudozugodowijigeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bb8099530---45874223795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/gizesaxoxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/xowugawoliweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optimizecost.com/admin/ficheros_fckedit_subidos/japomisagonugikovaxudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+biology+of+belief+full+pdfPDF 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_off00010b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B81 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 56c97be94853ac055238bba56696d050ffa0f610a5dfd783a6f9cdfed90932ef
font_01_sfnt_off000122e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AFB 17568 bytes
SHA-256: c699fb1e1b044604320f6259b3ba86783c4dd71de12148e52e4badacc2975bfb