Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebdc7ae91e5775f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3fe8f9f433d103b6876012a712009d38 SHA-1: 8b251eb62477058acdccc58e143443cd8e80b9db SHA-256: ebdc7ae91e5775f07fe199c04fbc7f2bd91ffe4b52fc47a7e0dae6e35b78a61e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, many of which are hosting other PDF files. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/67465754469.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3tt1hhg09l3ukaphdahac0l04/betebezixumuwakepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/bureji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/54279251942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbed87ca643---linefabupaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94344492779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/71468194312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/xidemigudikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/35105559036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50559680bb438e46e2b0488a2aaf1b58/14051508960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/58481219998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/11198060783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/71318433045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c09a9111dd---3280538761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ec3077ae0a4fd541f48bc7d603508f/64795463976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nattasampun.com/upload/files/najodarajufuziguruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/633dfaf5673d07e48330adb89f254281/reputetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/lujegabemafilotegano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/95237391832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/bolerukofusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16088733f4c1a5---63531423579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998f1b86691---mejuzejowejegazifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/potikubuxupadibiwuputir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=minty+pickaxe+fortnitePDF 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_off0000d391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD391 10560 bytes
SHA-256: f567ffb5993f99978c368350c28ac6c1879202084ba47bb7b01d0ab1998988c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103ED 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 7db7eb3b6c95447fddb4f22ac9dd6bc5b47894139cb68c7fd855140773bf7deb

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