Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd78b540de55893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 22:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 087fa1c1439d6e2351cad482a4950953 SHA-1: 7480db57b3068baea99e4ee55356702c9920b80f SHA-256: ebd78b540de5589348c58d628ed5db452c2a957acc0d18503a686f8d8c1e5161
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vowel+sound+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/vuvewevirumisufapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73f6a3d468---wixaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/nipoxerejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5273e899e8786aa0947632f44c5d32c4/tobebewalezewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/335594128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/mejetemiwipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfau3fmreofm7bc2uubvlee0d7/labedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/59463374513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35iu5nmqgkopi7344c5lcp1fh/20454584650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ud0nmotrcm3ga80ja3vtj6h5cm/24024009009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef3ba1dc3d---fipasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6f9aed210---laxexapewogilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874ddc76386---vixidexisobaboleruwazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/55128903913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bc65136db---2113126499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D9F 3596 bytes
SHA-256: a997d89c400544aab94712dd2c182877521833a54d4365babb467a4217105b78
font_01_sfnt_off00017a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A8C 4788 bytes
SHA-256: eb4fc5d48cd2e23ba724252095597ccb16e600b1de94fbdac637fe761ef36daa
font_02_sfnt_off00018b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B06 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 9f92351669f160995ad5880e6278c27dce2edf82bcfb8396ec6ea609e4559b0c
font_03_sfnt_off0001c4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C4DC 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 757edbe9ca696dc752e8794cc2fab55b744a24b197aba41abea0c8f583a0f3ca