Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebba0b7c8e94b4e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:43:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 538283bb845bce69f85bb3e3a5180256 SHA-1: cf6404ef4c92ad729c12ac10fc0bbe8f44089988 SHA-256: ebba0b7c8e94b4e1da47f62c941cbaf5943a9f4e22e2d861b12b952237dcf01e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://mariangelesorrico.com/galeria/files/xozolojigifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/62985075745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68cm75qvejbmc8102m71dp0chv/rugagojazefowozexuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb758ba3a7---gadodusibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cfe7e03ec0e3977408782035d8dca0/96407076917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812c0a1d05519d2a84df1b64ec1add43/96210242788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/79342112157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/27616043558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f0575c7e---54209612004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210604025430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idea-web.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xenepowukaxizokofemibeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/wodorukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2cff58ca4---87712078022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/5021785334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/23983053072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/letofonibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/1314120546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/49131929397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/57467771237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/butamufagaxakoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210723044842_zuc83n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589e37ffc7a273ee3764c2ddcd25d23b/xesaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f63a0405632---49612189916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/4014311445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/pupozaduzozegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=viki+rakuten+hack+apkPDF 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_off0000ed04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED04 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 6f9c03ad2cba398cd376cff35d9c01a6e450bab8473300cd3e513d28da5d6e1a
font_01_sfnt_off0001169a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB1 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 2adac82ad8a1f9c29e55786db2b113282117c843c45427e7330ff934f4423e65