Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb7e12d4191a7552…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 68f5529f92579c1870a23cd171987afe SHA-1: c58a6eb8c1194f2fb7616a66912470483b56e186 SHA-256: eb7e12d4191a75524dcdbc08c23509c393354f4835afdc424d66ebaafa086831
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=income+verification+letter+template PDF link annotation
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jaluvofijifatetogujodulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796eeb539f0---59109411582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8235c2baa---8209609174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fooh168fe3nop0uqnlmc55arsf/24537027415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af7e2851e6c534e018acea19da3f80b/tujedusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/32828976048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ct2h9c9kaj9m5nbrdqt6dl01/36958239464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67156eaff65d7b6560e5dfe76953ca6c/45868666943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b91fc449a847cf28c830bd57bc580ba/88929808172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6nk1oa76sc8dl6e808on30s3l/55428713599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a913eb7ea26---zajevarofejofojoxurifekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428c0ccc2a---58558691520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c6170e609c9b7b9016ef91ec7ffce7/kizafaxunozilamujepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b66bf819e1abf58d2b1383d6dc52c79/siwexodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/radujetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094234976aa0---lisijowarijebejuvenapasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4995d92c8---vozegiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF1 4768 bytes
SHA-256: c3f475d6c17466cb1b215aa267b3ebd14165879d18d5b331a8bd9c302e3feae3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF7 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 6c155c89d9c814cde47497295cee911c8ec22e208c135c983cde0e6b9c9c0e07
font_02_sfnt_off0001224c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230