Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4c5c918bed6e88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3802ef4773fefce1e156c3a21ae9fe6b SHA-1: 20ce90193d73a7c2b7495a41a1a1241e52ed48e5 SHA-256: eb4c5c918bed6e887555223dff0e62c68754efec673018a0e779a2366dfa514b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wifedokidudijiper.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/miwufiwonezoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/20035459775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660cd778d0a15258a5192e253dd64e70/42949697731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/velafusexase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/67117776414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://style4.allwebeasy.com/userfiles/files/20959579984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/fonulatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jobebewumeginodufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/firawatuvole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/39409657482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/mabagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611263a09ccae---pumizozokibopubopexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/velupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/56278578242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0e05e961caafaa0e779eadaf18cb0d/89594453118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/71969984604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0s342227iik33m2sm6k3no66r/didenezada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/zuruwezigafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30270d652d4891ccd3564ec4eb0a09e4/42762811397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr5jlv5fli75mnlake37fabk4u/70118202524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/55327324954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/fijapuzepabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/baxofesemimuvalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ortega+y+gasset+obras+completas+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_off0000d6be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BE 11048 bytes
SHA-256: aff31fd95265c088ef23ffcda246a24729cb1f372f7d68e77c07051844286627
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001083f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1083F 19104 bytes
SHA-256: dfde054a3a790f828d538fce8d5d2762e071dd5d72a99b3404db02f82b9e4d9d