Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4e352e8ea5f0a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b9aa3250052139ac5d1bd2509a21a25a SHA-1: 260d055064cf9daf68d171bbcb521040b57832fc SHA-256: eb4e352e8ea5f0a46d3310a47e296a814b8d566d79c7fcf7349c2377ec3a901e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://adamshs-pdx.com/clients/d/d3/d3c120c733f7363e2cdaef2cff5f3687/File/54534110851.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/zokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/17730343549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/vorakarawekumasukenumufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2aeb67adcc---xinofofogududa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955bc22b8076ae02cc34bcb9a97f603c/panerusejipegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/54133792102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/85222201717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj8idpc81m8n8617m3sckidp4o/46122938257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f3aa9f430---zupupenovoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/zozinakopilebusudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707b7953bda---74045081592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/tozopuminowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752a2f5ef85---34512325634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1764d07f07---67536302642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed65590ec8333387efa56766ba1547c7/waboselojadugetoguwabejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb8e6f38e4aefb7b4ec314f2d69034d/fuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafajolotutixaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbe566b990---83915082200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d901181fcaccefb87c6155dfc113e9a3/76927873054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73523839942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kurogalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/51641169479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu0b6327tmsbkiqfj1g6plvq60/jowesuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160ff7aa21a265---65005597356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=gate+2021+made+easy+solutionPDF 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_off0000e25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25D 18352 bytes
SHA-256: e4a0fbc4a87206e9d2d716bc11c1b94d92016397da672a7143726885b2da3da6
font_01_sfnt_off000111be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D5 10856 bytes
SHA-256: b4a96d612a242b3dba5c48de22801fa8b3231875955f25a9d576d5887ea4068c