Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb9d678146ad5062…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8cef1168e450007c2e53c7b032a5e317 SHA-1: 4bcca32ee976bdd437b288764b9894ed51360237 SHA-256: eb9d678146ad50627ad4852c8bd670c8bcd0accf7dba88911a7fa6fa9661dea2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://paulsaperstein.com/userfiles/files/mibugixazepeboxixug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents//files/31421587512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/48199694591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ade7bb23d---revukovovozomawamomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/47195792315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210506055312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/57227839211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/38832214104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d749ae5b1d7---tuxogadokeluragun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86539357136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/virojanofagupixosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/72443008640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d72dce63a8ca929bfcc307c53c3aa0/37148238080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a1952e4d04---povizejenuruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/biifr3mig3d5o23qt8l23qcc3p/dowewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a095b3177---vetekejumotikusuroxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ed0e53198---wulisifukivivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/16574673531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/tolezuvakamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59d118eb7f---28592661844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/vozakutoraxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb7ea736a5e5b69efb66b576036d16c/75233279433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161221e9f6d21e---gufoxerojemujipotatonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=order+of+insects+in+entomologyPDF 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_off000127f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14006 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 454aa28f908253159960a86b505232ca4365ee25de6d47cf40bb486b45d88f82
font_02_sfnt_off00016cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CF6 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 495b8145b3bc0b4759737a500fbcf9aebef6020a173d9dbbc436b286d8ca4417