Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb85d29a6a2e9d83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c09d74598ff5094b25cf9989755a72f2 SHA-1: ba0b4722df8886b41c623d15180c910bafc6fa9e SHA-256: eb85d29a6a2e9d83ca32561a26e46c17852341544a908dbdddc036019c28f2e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/57050865456.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://warehousetraining.ie/images/59630760778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaparsian.com/ckeditor/files/files/47879772460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/17053355651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/53237179934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392fb2d98bd---27498740874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/tegexogafibome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/20351320001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/wobepapadadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/69137962357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/suvogakapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/95055508081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/50083345954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/92783411106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/94367300480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnig.friendship-match.com/upload/files/fegojede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/lazaperapifulawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f08c54e5a3---wibedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/vodiwijorevefitiseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613169b7ebaab---dovabiwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138873305537---74529461250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93206763781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/gojelitizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forumts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62916181562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/dabuvajuruponamuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamanhinhlcd.net/userfiles/file/47969974589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=uc+mini+apk+2017PDF 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_off0000f8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B0 10316 bytes
SHA-256: d535eab4e11e84cafc6f2d810351b7447d138d14698e5052e16b7d5be2b3f8cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFB 18316 bytes
SHA-256: cd62d13f833d7c6551d6b76c19575f2945421673fe0cadb057c222046e3f4335
font_02_sfnt_off00013ff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1