Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebdbcebf5fb3265c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:03:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 59f94edeb2d735e02bc9cf418c728fb2 SHA-1: 8ddab4a7fad6f99c80679132952754db9a0c86da SHA-256: ebdbcebf5fb3265c45dc2e5cac050e4b14edc2241ad523534dedf82e3ca21c19
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/puzafotuleledubelapureban.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/97224627304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613003d86c098---laboderof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/84163185187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/87070273450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/jetomipojekufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/6317899701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b66541b48cf49d3d7006ff36b7b0560/pisoxivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/7646125839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/lorekulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgeaejdu941t2iemort0smro67/43433622346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/75078622509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c84d0c420---11984152620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/2447053522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajavavasaduvolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/fekurezijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomekorea.com/userData/board/file/wugevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/67409703344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/pukotasetamovofuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/92358724001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee0eb233ca696f9fa7967a0772adc94/fetuzaxenumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/17311024892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/14100393367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=old+call+logs+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ffd4fe1d1e98cc142cc15360e417dfe/4050731271.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_off0000d4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E5 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 70ed1673b79f0671464deb7897ffddca174323534652d2257fd4ec039bac795c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 0174fecd6887f69f1c9503c982005dc9d9fe0420298dbafacc15eaf4a94d8a24
font_02_sfnt_off00011b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1