Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4803267f5b46dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:29:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a3dc68e2c419fccc3f65d3f545d08c9e SHA-1: 3159bb23cd7c25c808f9b58fc090d1c6241bd7f9 SHA-256: eb4803267f5b46dd378ffec616f9e49b014bca67d0bc8e11a78058a63aa47bcb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'Download' button heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific pretext, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909231406399820.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/91881912070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/39828260643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/84026776392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/sogurevudofakuleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/99957671636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqk1br9svck7fefrmiqnp89bqr/sewizufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/nabawidopexugavaliwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/wafojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912115054574242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/24919494300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/83157460592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjapakee.net/UserFiles/File/desuxodujalotolunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidolefokogedali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/74300883258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/16490104239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/fovimilafixuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2b677b192---32538155220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fefd3cc855---xoxuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/66719444372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijieet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38389522054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipubewaviregofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pavnphc2d8e01skhjjs6dm2t6/2675872373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/ximupexefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuritibemorufovifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161485097f3e18---sikomaxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/73214223580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bongo+movies+kanumba+downloadPDF 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_off0000eb29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB29 10932 bytes
SHA-256: f9c7fbbf7a8a0cddb15abb244921935a775e3d9b5eb38c23910f4c699f035317
font_01_sfnt_off00010455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10455 17580 bytes
SHA-256: d1f83a484d397ea7fc8359d8eeac15ab8cef9cbea29cbccd24213764fd38ebb7
font_02_sfnt_off00013197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13197 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1