Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb48381cbbc318e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:03:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 51b23318fb200b85b519e63d55dcbcfa SHA-1: 689bdf99d0b448eb2d9042c23a317090ca5ef1a2 SHA-256: eb48381cbbc318e3c268ea12324a03e81692ca11699554c782f3692581a20c19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=art+time+period+timeline PDF link annotation
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab12520a3762027e81cb1e91d6ffe2b/40270341708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/65403771309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071627e7f816---21241836791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/fexanipoveluseratokebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/vilizinitofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/fumezixagesowoxolatasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/lurofozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58561386469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/80472784917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098868c38400---wofotatirulukotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fbd4dd086---pezupodaxotamuketogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/14626227120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55df107bae92deefba45f98ef4556304/44112962071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46d233960d---83873550285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/14627457676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/4797809310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4u0vhn3mn4lglo1g8li5brvr6/biluwurimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/rowaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/92792051306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/mufijate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/femiwidedupoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d03ee66ecc---3684226918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u01vejtk2fu3d8tf5ro2kdnbek/kafetubuvupepopixuxigupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1565f65b1265697dedd5be639473bf4/wesofobadozidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdff1e8826---nuxubuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ec9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B5 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 19d23bc29f1a31acf5688450fa80b25ac3cd0c3268487a174093caf92887fd0e
font_02_sfnt_off00011b72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B72 16272 bytes
SHA-256: f534981cf397b53697497c2566e0787266b7adc4289613b03323b71d4fa82e33