Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb46ce9a17c6f087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 04b899608b7b32c72926f4fb6ec31a11 SHA-1: 0e69b79c48025da074af05a04b3381f887bc290d SHA-256: eb46ce9a17c6f08760ee89a6d2463f18a881d9faea68c3d65b338da3dacde575
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests the document's content is designed to mimic an invoice or payment request to entice users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://jarosi.hu/files/file/97204193707.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/34953823577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9201mgejjom73ls7cdjl460lc/92161845400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/87115304272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/witilemakaxibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/mosizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/sanimozorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3796kv1ntr7ckmmob6hk6m6h0/xodadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/41387468602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/55150626797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea9da10f8852867dc2c68e9eb8964f71/14009358975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210827202306683731079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/80789617479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/timoxajipobakesuselabibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/zirabusodiwojoseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210906145730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gi0lamj7jfoi48b3cbiia12vq/kojodejipekaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=free+service+contract+template+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_off0000ef86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF86 18056 bytes
SHA-256: ad74e7c12eddea29c75ad9a3585c7acf5b2eff5eefc67dcf4830920056f44239
font_01_sfnt_off00011dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD8 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 08d315b075d2102813a28fe685cc12cf29b928569e911b8d2a3223d6e7b20d1d
font_02_sfnt_off000136d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1