Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eba0a66cdf07bf74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 22:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e50402cdca6fa1bf85ef27d810e9b96f SHA-1: 20a68b5b008755db6adacb82b38ad0ea89085c71 SHA-256: eba0a66cdf07bf7453ea8b5c79bd36f56a88b068a7e7ed046a1ac315399d3909
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting, with many URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing context further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ty-int.com/files/files/pogujevevonewuwatigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwovenuratajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/451726df5373c8a2b51946021caab881/65720485794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/mavosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/30303517529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/vuwujunokanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/163058672916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonhn.com/d/files/netuxokepalijasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/89747166768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/toxetarogovodolevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210921163223460487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dde1ac3a5d---nasobipotanerinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/tuvuvuwojitodakezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/79707690592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/84551301405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85669037281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/53872217570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/27672841032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/lanunewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewijuveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f47d5ab30c---razopusalotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/kakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082fb2eed17ab04d724f204a4748e481/likotaliwojodoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrocare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31097445626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=screencast+to+ps4PDF 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_off0000dba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA2 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 93e6e8326c778c6c3033294a15ca61f33c72129b105a78b1368d60e6909bd837
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001240c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240C 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 6770d2952fb8d45b796b38feb075aa130719e7ed3f62b38637f64b6444ef3e3a