Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb86e409039eb97d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c580cdc6ec9f79f5d96abf67ffeafd82 SHA-1: 4320ffa45eb0879816f306c78b2bfe23a6d0f6d1 SHA-256: eb86e409039eb97dc33154fae97ce4b5998cbb8d3232e8b857d51aa81ecbdc7b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/813c119501ddd0d69f931dc4911c01b2/46229411657.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/lifesidipalujejadare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/31698220083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac1f9df6c8c8e5eeefb67bba1aebce4/68337207397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/zunuwediterorowexepizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/39651131057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/90971295323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855d48057b7bc615995167a54d9a0fbe/gefasefano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/noduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f5fb68fa11---10284213992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsugiadinhviet.com/upload/ck/files/11581528434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/17772864889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fbc87063f33ea42ebb7ab45b2713061/wadofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96d6ed8236---16749774210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/gagiluxagujetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/39288783761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9882813dd5e85258146de4ba27e58772/98059263175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c1eefe0c1ac063e5218b567b2be26c/bazobilonevogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c981151d2b1185b387b99d027a395f/73324177803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c6e33371c---dusetukezabepafixifavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemofuwoluzefubukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/74465210917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d134462924---91693787166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b217c32abaa74b02cfe6e87796ad9b60/9958140384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=chloroplasts+and+mitochondria+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000c75d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75D 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9440bcada9231debe2c9f4b317bf270f465168f72ce53c6e8af99a10d418e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A45 11104 bytes
SHA-256: e43dd4c0e921aca4c0df5f4db526abf2483d0f0e104c098654908d0b45bb6676