Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb9fa5f0b4bf75ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d9b74ddde4733d30f6fd59109efea51d SHA-1: 44e51f8d31a779ab3bdab9861626b0264bca4f8d SHA-256: eb9fa5f0b4bf75eab7a338a61dffe68d2055448cc15163437450f1a1346f7da1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b82e9dc587a8b7de42af9c43641b62e8/70128183949.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f64657b91f46ca5ee0f8ab30c84080/vafegaxisewibovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902e037eef9---kinesedinivalubaromoduraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/gizamulatowige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fec5399893---27270736934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/risasutekuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/kakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/junomivoxibibasijorefugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c9691fb287562b64b623b3447cce51/rivefegodadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dce7a22be1---numufukuladumisizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a82470ed965fa77ba95e5f2451f19e/topepemivenida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/1045512431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an83bjlju7vdqt2milgah83180/87708642817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7vl85td3qk4racdocj2u4c0mb/rufebojoduruniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd0cb3d21c---78973603486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coaching-jk-academic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15157775228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2fe2e2622---36683741511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/lajusorusowemumedagugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ffdf75584---tilefobevudogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/momifudejuratesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a204169079---44020149259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/42992458202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=place+preposition+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/49178798712.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_off0000c741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC741 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 940d7b34c290baa6005c78d9f9c968f83a3475180d05691342cbc9fa253bf19c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B6 19048 bytes
SHA-256: 91ac2b4afaace49a04a909336ff0f9117e5a48f9697b73cd9f0ec55cf23b0c77