Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebbc6a4a1324dfc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 06:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c93fdf7ba019b66c3757eb5d15738df1 SHA-1: d51f3b428d2e6e7c54e1403a584f743bbf668eae SHA-256: ebbc6a4a1324dfc85e9ece0c0245d1ff4cfb13b9338f7f73593d5800b86e5eca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV and ML classifiers, containing numerous links to external websites. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pathologies+of+rational+choice+theory+pdf
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/69578107720.pdf
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/11639831798.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0aff82696---25896034164.pdf
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/81963711560b7a0cee87b6.pdf
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981c25c5436---92507469006.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgac6l7a59neok547flloh55tg/duripalojato.pdf
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents//files/sokusapipemuvesete.pdf
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/52412834113.pdf
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/40752743613.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d651d6bbdcc---40474302871.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6e223f316e54f5f38003ced0a010ff/60645673740.pdf
    • http://lordbeaverbrook1973.com/clients/76835/File/tokuwukavugumo.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovphn1cr4kchvk3nobrrr94381/57863549517.pdf
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/90522471209.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161002375a326c---5003360824.pdf
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/fedikemitafunetatavakami.pdf
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/sulomoniridene.pdf
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81338819735.pdf
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul47t1mji0nsonb03ebsp1oaa5/73063521907.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9c175e1f13c5053a43efbac61e1122/potesifume.pdf
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d68c2701---93721951337.pdf
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/netamemugawurox.pdf
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/8633930471.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e00e.bin
167c2c38b082ba3597c9aee0bc3ae9d618c6d0d54594d8e34ca2476c90e8abac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00E 16868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c27.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C27 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001243e.bin
9edd509a6e121f2a2a268c9f4581454df1b3610b91c9d58af16f599821411a47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243E 11012 bytes