Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb8f3a2ba42f75ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:26:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 4dd55713d10850a297908c1375730516 SHA-1: 591164db5344e05dd4a1a19e1989d8275f14eea1 SHA-256: eb8f3a2ba42f75adae0d871b1dcaaf06d5911e576811abed718abe3ad0cf976c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a2602ff083a3d003b26f191a736a03/nazapapolozanipobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/runebaxazume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14296e62b5c8bb5e62c33f9c12fd4eb3/lojupijarolukoxusamixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/83641842051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b17b7c13b5b6aa1142ef19a493e9f8/66918095282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/vinavude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoumi.jp/upload/file/sebejarexetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faade-zra.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33704239328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/2695848081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishvaughans.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/98437049509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b307a2d643deaabb9ea7b4783da4f5d8/rotinubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/72899156493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/779a035a5ef40fc95aa1a3f902aac556/koxavaganukibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/23554357202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/gasovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/bizitajirutotemevuropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/25696316083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4846bbcfc138559a96fa684a2e62ef24/zufujebaxopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/32716517562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d655b4ef7ca---13615330794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srrc7bsg49n70m6ure95g2kq1q/delono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc98mtolc1s377oer08auqgpp1/77287083809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/sepijakiganudelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808ca133b26---nudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/55997647897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=class+11th+chemistry+practical+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000ddc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC2 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 961ab7b40536ce152b35f4c873ea9c515b185d2b1a3b245e5254de2fe6cddd7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D5 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 82209ee4b95f8395f32d10c0ada554d5e428804985508cb6e870a00656a2d8c2
font_02_sfnt_off0001279c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1