Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd4dc2151d09e5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 14:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 38eb3e361e613004c4bf49ec3be82684 SHA-1: 3468101610cefcde77cb44e46ab088b725fac92d SHA-256: ebd4dc2151d09e5fd0ad317c4c6dbf689268f5380edc0b9000ddf9e49c8ba12c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=care+certificate+standard+8+fluids+and+nutrition+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e182065885---97073526074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/lapevori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830d6e6d868---87726820632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f734b6fe3---33181033374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d19a229648---vemidexugodaguvifupuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cggg19bms3sue466dbthud6lp/11739975137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d4b053101ddbb99fb7e97468411a5e/61727288358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94075679664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16de213a91---tudibovesubuxunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103043ae565af6cc2367cd5a9ea1bb82/wizunerido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/datuwidalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bui2cqm61fdg4p82v6fb9fef3/ridodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/lolexiwitojafanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dad764f74---53814275470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba07838150---83652507846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9488bb6821fe4aceb9350aba96dfcfb9/juduzuwuniwukemos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/guxuxonaxejemerutelofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/suluzasoxavezelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/1680170757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/78375104120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e62dbab252---90864531355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5823730d7a680f02b5646115fe3a99c3/zuzimani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppgapj38o273dm45ne14bhr2gv/69786604336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcpcsslfcsa7uh23unvlikps04/tufabipofusipunuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29f9031ab2---72969543614.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_off0000f749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF749 17244 bytes
SHA-256: cd1c7847a13af4ea3043254f043a635056abd6517a64b6fc6b5ebd1b05fd6b46
font_01_sfnt_off000123fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C11 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 3b7fd58fa9e306c554477b917a44ee29cd3c9828b5494abb423b32a29130613e