Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb9530cf340b56c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:42:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 960855a93e23277b2aebcc4cddc66de7 SHA-1: b87e378e28cb12e747bcf6cd1bef58b4bad52a50 SHA-256: eb9530cf340b56c37dcc3d92f4ff8c49f659178f8398fc58dd89e5e2ca224c44
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing a large number of embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm suggests a campaign to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=towns+with+funny+names PDF link annotation
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/kumokelizimedetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcj5ogvape91a0k0opf4qj0b05/76221754625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d785414ba1683ceec574931a7025c73/27943078204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/6259296190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7fd07f4da---kawexeruvavegof.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/89589865259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/39417395354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02abc745271658e443b3a9a10f42947/jagubepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3383315838---29538591629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///35105777912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/wusojogaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d312b850---58374370322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/93126274992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6fa593433d2251213f9f10646a4fde9/13094395357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db0962fc94---11112818840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/38127871527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/pabubegupefuketikumamobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrokentakifinan.com/resimler/files/dusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16224094969542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9cbe14b761d19d3dd4cf2e3f4fd6ee/43707284710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98c5a858c6---tagorafekarowamizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403d49bd2734c4b6c7ea043d031cb5c2/24355207915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/80374488255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/41658102151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6aacb7dd86---72481325752.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_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 10596 bytes
SHA-256: a0e322446f60f607fa487c1f4c24d101804c11e388974241a1691cc5721dc465
font_01_sfnt_off00013926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13926 17000 bytes
SHA-256: eca13df6b50f2f00e2a2e9ad9aff1f0cea5d08ba4c868f41352009a29c45ff81
font_02_sfnt_off00016570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16570 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1