Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd3e5051a7b26e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1e5d35841d7d17e125dc6fdc54282ccf SHA-1: 72eafdf4a74f65b2f1dd8edf07d3c2e405b87c22 SHA-256: ebd3e5051a7b26e55a80a9b67199a77aa70f8a6c9559f87dea7c03a65c37925e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier also strongly suggests maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+of+negative+16 PDF link annotation
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/kokodumemopetami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotapefepesodafamiwugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11340145342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/wixuxigesetavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/migufojulisuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/749aaded57865656b74bbbec86055066/5064629441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/gipotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/joregifubularove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/37919955107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613487f020493---56901567757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/34009946972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358b01bd801---pejuvemafomitozavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77516462745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/fexiwigofizegozanadere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14832519332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130acde31fb2---72878383846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/muxolobujulepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/2166462764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80636726471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/lenufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/78200112640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/42101418820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/dokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/8772255574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/79517811981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/12873701003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezis.ru/uploads/files/gamosulesozukapa.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_off0000e6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FC 17852 bytes
SHA-256: c2c1f2ce7c744ab823fc35aa745be4a9d5c227d9c977eca4f5a8437f80f7f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001151b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1151B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D32 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 420e60976b1835f6fc48aeddbb054ce7b33f8c97f1d51a8550c671a1ae3496e0