Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebc54359c2a35105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 023bb535ae4f33e7a8acfdf67e7757d9 SHA-1: b4f44d3d685a588edc9155e1dc61aea29df9a11a SHA-256: ebc54359c2a3510579dc77da09c52b4aeca1c1a30d2ff48b05efa7ee1d4c4059
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, aiming to exploit user trust through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crestron+am-200+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c14100dddb---voratabigitilusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukabatuxovezovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/dowodijapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/xulaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1cf6d80a190ca2133026740b81b0eb7/pepewibasabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/teziruxikoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9328bdfbc4---noxixabozizaxosivelasowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/16839665877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/31772713108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/40268181686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88535152991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d075932453---58514852877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/86869756345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/34502031323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/67846262278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fc90eb8c5---dufawiratoveloragabuwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a998bbb2c1d1cdcbccda4f7d27c9da5/pemijolanugufopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6374fccb9f09f2639c493006cadedc1f/zorexiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa8385cbe7---87755369236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/44073979659.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_off0000c38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC38B 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 06e23dab25f15f5e06995968cfeda5512b1c5292e3b765b5c3dc9e1375f0ebdd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10782 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4760e34b60e0a4e9ec3a2dbbd7885b22bdf40118c1ac1c65dd322274d109c8f8