Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebcb02de21e286b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 39bc75ce7fbbd2cd5edc9e6a994256b3 SHA-1: 27041a60dbcc25ad8487fbc044edea8d16063c75 SHA-256: ebcb02de21e286b2ddfe4628f66a5575422e41ebcd5fa024acf55372554fbdba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure. The presence of urgency lures suggests an attempt to trick the user into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numuxuzarutogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/43789381554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325537132a7---bulamamupelima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/dunewimerajukaxafeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301bda5e44d---27738591637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/11119463068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/87535672777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/89490575128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/22633521732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/66117381095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138434901914---19876770669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members/member_images/files/51796086806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/85202453253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/10738629245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63420322510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/84803740514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/suzexesozidaxevidivozelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/jakeketatef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/70644221556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/29853860565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/fupafufizajulavolarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvotede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/6641132182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67812976116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.eu/UserFiles/file/danizixamelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bef7ede27d0b7b7ff98d98a8a82fe122/52525608961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swiz.eu/files/editor/65028916009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=resguardo+personal+pdfPDF 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_off0000f8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D1 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 0ade07b172257d74da715d916973112b4781ad10aedb839125a66defae02b720
font_01_sfnt_off00012721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12721 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 1b15029ef2a5f48504f9691dc56c8f08e38ccedf12a41a6a655cab51c55231b6
font_02_sfnt_off00013f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1