Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd97936b67fe2a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d603d8badf3b222512d7b1d99f3314a4 SHA-1: 6ef043a28cab5aea18682ae1a47ae0f718f0bed7 SHA-256: ebd97936b67fe2a8b2ce5a19ff948d0e581e62d93900ca29c13e7db58b0b184e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to download further malicious PDFs from compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=digital+signal+processing+oppenheim+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f29768f7a96716bec88deac3cf0496ce/lexolixuwigotoxonaturodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.com/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/42773961228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/gulibotokelanozuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/volapuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c180eaed1181482b85833fb05da80855/pojolujodoberilobosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1342d56251---sexosajupireduvifofemaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13954b06439b6d8a903d687bbeb59794/muruvojibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30329032127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/ditonolofifovaxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/risujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2cbgrnt0q6qqpf8as5lj2gq5l/xexoxijatibewemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f91e08122993604df79abc152b2b59a/disuvapoziborowawikamivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/koporudorotexuzelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae31bc01d42909c2e40f533332259bbe/befilileke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f92faf46972---42061190884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/zedivafifemulesosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2309d994a9614536de7ae5886142bf8/fejakuwenotisubibujipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/laluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/wepizowemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa355ee0f6---86152719108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a266b4072a0df555bdcd7cbed1d3a308/dubujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/71720263536.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_off0000d6c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C8 20664 bytes
SHA-256: 0aef318ce2c915171e2afdb169639a1f05ba2d331e9885dd0a8f8f550c2bd4d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0D 11068 bytes
SHA-256: ce00e7568521cb08086509f15b472dda428b68fdaf7a6f2aa2ed2cfec5fe3988
font_02_sfnt_off0001266d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1