Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb8489da7db604df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d4b629904e3a149ce33fda1570763101 SHA-1: 5ec330fb66fcc66ad695fddc311faa22725a487f SHA-256: eb8489da7db604df774fc0e73fe113ec99549597921eb8a4fc82d3d52ae3b3ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URI heuristics and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL distribution are indicative of a phishing or SEO spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2012+honda+cr+v+owners+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/nuwuzager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d786fc3affef6ab7df19f1572cef9162/rozerowoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/31906051000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b77ef56afe---soxojexajeligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/73983575578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc941086da---vomosotutamudusixemilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/53519416258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/pobekotafigadalifefeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/64840177524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq4vq4saouchb2kbn81375q0ll/24196027995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/65395538026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maplewoodmachine.com/clients/1/17/17f0ea2532424b9b8bf99baf53cd3763/File/74711492618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://missinternationalbeauty.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/sozuvavumekixedekileveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67515cb50edec03d21fcadc266f28d43/18339695483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6263ed89c1eb4443b87590a0c3cdb08d/891983572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olamare.com/img/uploaded/file/33102852718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8d4617c27ab66ec7577efdb863d9df/witusubedutofiwifanabiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/76787050096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cef8ed2384c---fulifometupowotakori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/januwagazorofopojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/wimirigozuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/levajebuxokesisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f27d4d8aba61142e0919404ae86983/86494556701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/vikufikotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/parobupafijixexupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/vazojitimoruf.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_off0000ba4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA4B 16164 bytes
SHA-256: f45007110f4a0a09dd9d6139cb9510f4905b9c1e0f05c735e41f5df397533afc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEC 11144 bytes
SHA-256: ff113ce1cb210dbe73a2f6bef9e9f4514bfbbe029ce26921a6fa55dbb8d68f27

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