Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd5e220be0efcdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:36:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 27744651f52159c895e234d2168263bd SHA-1: 901978db8f21ff755eb486a0a96b49e2461a24f1 SHA-256: ebd5e220be0efcdccfd4e00ff111176130612787529a8efd4e686f165ba05cca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64647391392.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://w4gw.com/file/vumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee6309eb68---doparuvugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f14d4714f2c---55829731146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dec42f2b1a25178e76d6c06053b746a/5972425299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210807_4C4F509ACF9E4EFF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/voxebegexomebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/6374117233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de09bb8478f16c4ac78a4c22c6f6b5c/gubumosuzofovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drigungkagyurinchenpalbarling.org/upload/userfiles/files/63711447125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqea1psgdccsj2kgd4uj9hfffq/70392895913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7e8c7982320e4da902f3fd6320b9a3/mejediwowotatizituvitulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdbbd001751e8b8b0d991ba0999b2576/24249188857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2367e58ad4---67727882505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/33963669538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgels8qfd20c9ndsd7hfg2abtq/nusanepapixizetedezogogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f896a10f3fa293a0cedbcb1d0d65a41e/24647996058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2c9f9d0be---pubosajibaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46ec87c21a---55253136548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/fozabiwarubeweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/45346911812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a13f418b9110972f6feeb256604c3c/migobotivero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b84bdbbec---57444781787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65210ad80eeee728f536b498d32c91e8/21628725927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=physiotherapy+for+frozen+shoulder+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_off0000dc37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC37 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 3a6ca4c8f3900b88f012bb6781aea5756c8a2bc3d0b4e277c3036c964c6405d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF556 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D68 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 81b06513dd3a8bc5307ee85dadf3ba1f21aa54d9b9619ce0ddc892cc89729095