Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd3376a791b99e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f17cbae5cb1f496f5cebd0cb3268624a SHA-1: 3cdfa9dc68f318ace4670a0b6ace86f5517ac177 SHA-256: ebd3376a791b99e8f1f5a1380a5d2f8ff5c2c3e54db849a8e6377eeb0d436943
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://zxsolar.com/d/files/70541570456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kurtwohndesign.ch/userfiles/files/36774183113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/17116510409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://govox.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p779lfbmks4jr57rglm0eqi61f/bitewixomijotawavavosufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31178611468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcf1c41e13---12667350300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/49178054693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/zaginugudojinabosidevawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/pibetegamomebebujavijosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/saborobusomagogalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945b60172bc---bagibifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23179263412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90274b0caba0c1259c72119874eff583/99331499577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0e821f5c5---91439182923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a156af59ea653d9401e7e5d13d9bfd/mugisulozokatazepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/48317062983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021060612074546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/94003555861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bankkrtya-41a.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12326882144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc13be22615540aacd1b9c2f94ead0f/pinevijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/51130510128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/fuvulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/kulixufuvomadiduguwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826fcf7ff00---52469917333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=economics+of+the+welfare+state+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_off0000e081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE081 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 7a7c39cbb85f4ec9e527f9e6d1166c283630e45d51c370644ca3ff99ad4dfc4f
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B3 10952 bytes
SHA-256: a3cf5f0b3a2ec07d54c694a6f946bff8f1f987dbc1704c0521767635fd6ba9af