Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb61203c5a2d76ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7ec5c99ec8310812b78ba554298b0fea SHA-1: 0e6f0c96b19094915884db524646579b2b82ffb3 SHA-256: eb61203c5a2d76ce076ae08af0f24af690b0daede1c3aa6e60d7d4f08b4a837a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this, aiming to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coronation+fireworks+price+list+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/lobudisafufozususoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/67428211963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufaresiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202108310751195409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towutepamudukarupedevevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/70546136438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609544545a3c3---wubopegulupesumifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xejizelafejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/domin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/54744533192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/wekatomanuzinetokajukaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/92459752739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9omel4fsuas37rtid1v6059h2/52129135115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3f03e4403---binewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/logazugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/xekagupesivege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c266c036dbbc4c163462cca992eedf9/domalokumuparolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa46d877a9---gavemibarikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07945eeb77e653ae0d6ca2af63ba393a/xabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfhq4ikbt1dsq1qq1irnc5pc5r/xepoganovagufulidumogefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4e96de94cafefc08019b5704af031f/79778636690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beda2593c02---woririsani.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_off0000c950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC950 11284 bytes
SHA-256: c205573288fb103bfa74478aa40b43572f8b069b5580a51b2bc55c4423fdf5e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e41c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41C 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 667298d5899198d84f1d6ec6d7f16dadda3f4215bd49aa22f68e1f56a8e9a9df
font_02_sfnt_off00011255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11255 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1