Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb68b6dcad08485c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:35:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5db6cc6b8f806b40c4a65e46bdacdbc2 SHA-1: c5d0652967d055aec928c9aab79653fcb2dac114 SHA-256: eb68b6dcad08485cf576448f0e0852772acbe090d04ba69569e87802d554c7d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF's structure point towards it being used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or further redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/54417678598.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/rajubukinumiwodenikemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cb2169b1e34f3d572ad52dbe60343c/ligijagufibabitofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef9194be749d0bb54f6301c8bf5fb6c/3751765627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/nisirofepuxadupibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b551c38933c---49726056010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/84955320464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d90b55ea5f1---53955781281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/lewexebosawoxitikuloduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3629eb6d23---joxikozisifapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/mizutaragijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cb09b38c2---tulogafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4bce86336a5d9d6549d9a6dd27ea9c/17579467692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e77916703---49960364905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/nawejazigirekobulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/taran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc0b26c8d8---vaduwarikepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cd053ed7efd3039615a8a2cc4198a74/vuzilizerolimepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penulajenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilawifebafozetimuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a034efafbfc---30608514234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7cafba7b6---92534517303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78002439f787ec1eadc6ef711113268f/xegure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=colin+firth+mary+poppinsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000155fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155FC 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 2226667a1f92e38e0f8bba88cd5cc9e023e01a6ecbc881030bfd4085a4c9bc84
font_01_sfnt_off00016e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001863d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1863D 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 41cfe7fe02c062798ce9cb814c2587c64610bc6f6ff1169a7ab30fc3e7bc1077
font_03_sfnt_off0001b542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B542 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 97e3f73a58ccdd4784c9ae1678d9f90717e6b6d0c87c36bf93adb8865ef65ebd