Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb98eccbc57dfc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 14:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8250edced3a6948e3ec4e8e9894e0cec SHA-1: c5d4fa600f2a7358005696660e796b202070abd5 SHA-256: eb98eccbc57dfc832643a611cd8a4d8c565fc88c57e2202bc34426c490cfd4f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to obscure its true purpose, which is likely to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f976cd6aef---katigufurelotopazaluvoru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/soberijewete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609519aa89291---nemisuviniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/66753314783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/46889445912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cedaeb635---26751022150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/fezozikofujarufivedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e98db79f8---63078981163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/81556283960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e036f1b1b---77913676649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kop10jc7pnv7rl9d2mpf20v9lt/59030539745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/majisikefezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06cc5ea5e6---puxasizalanubazaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a1e6eccf2e3b03624c1393e2982c90f/suridisakadilesikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukajalavujebedutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/62250578029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/399361538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/kexogusijexofenugopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae5c1a17d339d0109c272be1e9d3a2a8/12462244681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac15c1c82d2---pisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/27123803130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee2d823cc7---36460445454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1out799jcg56f21hbmi2vaals2/11765098251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/rimamaripoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tasq8a9ksg1gm0vm06gf2urnqu/96012818612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=place+utility+definition+ap+human+geographyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000160cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000178e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178E4 11116 bytes
SHA-256: d07ceeacd24d563ebca736989a03b77b8d6d6f8efe9a913e97ddf2950272b414
font_02_sfnt_off00019267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19267 21252 bytes
SHA-256: 66694858acf785c1c7a6b3ea2ca8fd2a45afbc36e1736d3c832f38ffb5ea2df6
font_03_sfnt_off0001ca11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CA11 16132 bytes
SHA-256: c658ffa842424b4fdda35080f0ff8201f43391792c93b2940617c0cbec6cafae