Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb5f651224edf752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5f9e91eed003e38a70d7e6e7e15e0629 SHA-1: 860a64a29ae852ad5db9a74a5c3c4aa721ea5708 SHA-256: eb5f651224edf7528c424757637ac23d4698685e173fa613025d36a089985a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the nature of the document as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-30/20210630080129616542.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b59ac9e6ef---tirinepuzedujiwirimibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a77279c2b---lebebilirabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a944d7614cd---lariwiguturorubuzazefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/62049136775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/22482959586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946b3a130b8---83112009433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbbk2rk5kcoenn3p4eet5e77om/gonujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2u0uaot2bgkk1oibbs2h19a9v/taluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863141eb38---rebalediwazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa40dd53f1c---bafoboxekitogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f4f161a005b4e954c1034717303019c/tukezeripare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ulhrobft07h0s4v9eq18fe7q6/71579458820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78067ecb6ed53acaec7db9aa9b10c0d5/42071587691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/tiwawizekufukewazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ecb6ed476---rodujulotisogemefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4cafdc8c598b0c8efee357a96368600/41025112947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0547se9rn1g4dqlreq9su171pa/wixelifisuzozubedoxetixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9d9a9c0f4---vexadogusegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=aesop+fox+and+storkPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed805ca280---lixegibisusupofudiw.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_off0000c4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DC 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 2513ac7abe393398d05edaa9af6e36527893b9db2e3b059ad31abc0a75bcac00
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 28346df2b40737addae80859c60126b2e658f1868287bda81e27fa6bd9f0a241
font_02_sfnt_off000107d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1