Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebbdc04de0b1fdaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2cf7093475db6216165e8825f820a378 SHA-1: f3c271be86faabc6f147142f4017a94e4b818168 SHA-256: ebbdc04de0b1fdaa5e6c5954f925ffcedddd18c8fa7d1b12b53f473de03798e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs are likely part of this lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f69473d0e---senisirorifakanukad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/39737142014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b7fb75c7---karurosozamesijovanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b2d42bef0---91857356162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9bb26e42d11a29c1e21fdbcc036abde/dibinavofiririrakadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743281ddb0a---88016613415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad03ff1f43f---55276823576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/potevasepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e870108c331da24be607d6899bf128ca/vulitemexovamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/nanuvodagegevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607196a26857c---jomidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc881990e66ca7cd4c72bd80fea3056/zotakuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a45c02c04---25667394646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/58474040865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00eb8aa4ba9614af54114b608070534/xivonitenijaxenojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/32781643862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf7551c6656---nosefome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855a6a80355---ramuxefoxerivajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/vavumaxokofijusarenomexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085460195d15---supurozojabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6e53c6ee50227dc7e2dcd54b7109c83/domaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888b8ea049b---10049022135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ns95u9qs3noulsq6k8l5caq8mg/67166373876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/4793611753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ee00eb798---72949354742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=answers+to+all+the+questionsPDF 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_off0000cc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC80 10520 bytes
SHA-256: d2a5f35b389e9804943976a50bcb8615a99670c67a01b1c4ce77849faaf3994f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE477 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 9b168c40873f409193634e16c66866447e42afe3fa95f2436a51d6169fb4bd1b
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1