Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd34e75fc55e5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:22:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ec68be02d11d48ed3f2afd1a71b33f61 SHA-1: 9e1a82b8a85bc2153446c8d085d300bba15873fa SHA-256: ebd34e75fc55e5ce66e119873966d77174891dd43d57f7b845c8f2b1d78d5390
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains an exploit. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an exploitation attempt, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript or a known PDF vulnerability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/vagosewadapemur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8a9p09vv1knblg9426k2s8ej6/zavupeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ffb0525d5adb12ef3efefd62bbb6df/56998391491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/47042569867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5e3307914---67991325429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhigh1970.com/clients/1/10/106e6567aa8bd3cecf4080670b11bd10/File/nozevamizejugojevurowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095229ca3ce0---81359635420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/7142676465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/jibogufosodefumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/jibatidafabixesinune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0d0d30b0b4---gukafube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdbc4a69ca---64855324157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/rikisikukelusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eefb78675---54970373559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8d4fe92d8---9872627779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/88912633949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2332eaef51c1a14f43fc263f75ccba5a/taname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2af0e92b5---84061407553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/rodejujanufigutuwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a89617ced---66236059593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab17ca8d44---merakuduxemakidanegabuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/vogofatakaladomufexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/12710925625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoggard1975.com/clients/a/a4/a43fc1111b7ad4318f8b553feb79a890/File/86631273063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damafabupakosate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69851071415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=present+perfect+continuous+reading+passagePDF 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_off0000e309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE309 17072 bytes
SHA-256: d2fc5951acdd4d5a44de6d9194bd8936f9e2dfc68d19c6bcb8301fbda6638305
font_01_sfnt_off00010f6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6B 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3dd94c1313b862fc78387219c10af325fde1dd3e13bfc4321cd29b23cf8e4e
font_02_sfnt_off00012865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12865 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1