Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb8f71d15f93bfd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 07:21:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 0f14720a874ac3776196f0bdcc5239bd SHA-1: 0c0faadbde16273c75a21972c526f0680c950e22 SHA-256: eb8f71d15f93bfd569d76d520ada6053fc40babffa6b0053159b2041ebfc77a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing attack pattern, potentially using the document as a lure to visit malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tamilnadu+10th+maths+guide+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ptbfh2qod76u7n9vfo0d22uq0/83631315589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/gakitasadusovapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/podenosejilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/85553481952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/53331669090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cca362eaba---75189292647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/gekegunimokobafofexeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/lotajajekako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibunexojibotogadojekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/14541351694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/95079337899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/65791778714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eaa9a17edd---94222734691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/bevomosatuvonubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92273720492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizulimiluredaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/xoxesapoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/4386632308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/raneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/83721680901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68810912708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73cf4de740cb0feebf3c3009ced310e7/kezubuzafatikaxefejewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/50148438704.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_off0000e3f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F8 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 6525914c91a7c78c558ad4d493cc65bd71713100361c867049810edbf888b1ee
font_01_sfnt_off00011065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11065 11248 bytes
SHA-256: c9b15ffb4bdf2733b056c09b6d21a0b9287c12b37408804b65b27b146b7f7425
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1