Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb7cad26faf8529a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:58:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2153ddcacff1aac04138a573b5c98375 SHA-1: b71c442ca1db73025a82b93722e8bb7bdbecfc7a SHA-256: eb7cad26faf8529ae6030256c3ed27f3fa40c5fa32587c1a9b4395f5f63ec943
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates social engineering, instructing the user to press Win+R or paste a command, likely to bypass macro restrictions and execute a payload. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/97507774467.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51bd13b6c2---pojujifiredixiwewivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89a5aae31f---84044300203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/mefuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a487e2cdf83---53871718506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c62pjk474ni3luvmk3if5d1j6/80679648885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/72297512953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/nefiwilemolurubeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c1f346ed2---59170614601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5a9343ab8---xevivazejikesofanolusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad93058479---pivelibepeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97de2319a8---93542099091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-8/20210608181334862275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/86527351056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/letisavozegokixogasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f58bsd3en4p10dvd28q3fl3t/pelipurudegofikefedogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e1a53a0f0---gekolarokenobekujawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b572999610bd6e53dd183bcc8cc128/bunasadufegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ddd24dbc2---bixigovixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74268506787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a0ea24aee11d5d5513720e4b16d935/72961370782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611pe444eu8apfosbfr439bg4f/41890330759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106182020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2593f589158e2dda0aa27064eb5ada/lugodokawuvibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=word+is+running+into+problems+with+the+acrobat+pdfmaker+office+com+addinPDF 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_off0000ec16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC16 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 0f835a57f5fc8c11068dd151537bca86c5c35c718516b8f7f93fa0bc9077d4ae
font_01_sfnt_off00011a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13277 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 048db71b9b7768125fa4177a6d083a5164beabdaf1764d6ea3304b59bece9cde