Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb90d70121358c5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 21:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2e35f47b9271a01aa86bc5a82770e749 SHA-1: 3027bf2813e82ef1f6eb7c1b657ebebd4faa57a1 SHA-256: eb90d70121358c5cb81bc48ca67e947fe6b0bfb427d2f0481a238c690554f42b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, such as phishing sites or malware downloaders.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

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 http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50153103724.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io57p92lvp38ponbq03l0r9dr1/99056023908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc248542d34---wolozugejamewumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6492316729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09a25b2ae4---luvufisinixurubaseriwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607577da8dbc1---44571698880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83177605552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/delus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handlpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64504602686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a37340a7790aaaf9fb55f07d15cb701/fajexijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe8358ac8e---lexaloxerimakejanano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/35457552585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/84445999761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fbcaa0515ee71c0105816c4f9e24ec0/dasilovegagomusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/20909942437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/zujodatalepobatokozova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q73qmk129o0pcd09502j888it6/purafikebunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/12831158952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1d5d1b30ebce6f675baa30af4d4aa9/27496192261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40iu094edh826obhcfbb56gca4/25941232025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcv30lki71vdjarp4ghb3q878m/24995739240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c862573983a---xureduwagorukobotakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/maliduvawubakeludepudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoug8dmvcqsmeroo1j3a5ojbtt/perexunubigibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70fd36d9eddf8b4ff51da0c433fc0a9/54175488043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=five+nights+at+freddy%27s+online+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF785 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 9bca0747d84bd05dbc12450523a72f02f72cd9a21c6f6f623f0acd19e7f1ccf3
font_01_sfnt_off0001109f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1109F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B1 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 98493e83ba0f809a86a551724b21d46eda10672847ecc2ae92ec38036f59d909