Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe2631c91749fb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1ae168a2d4bd80b06600dcebb5e4c6bc SHA-1: 9f557c361a05909af98e8dcb2256371cbc2f1038 SHA-256: ebe2631c91749fb5f4fd05974cd6718c6ed2a8b86889da78491eba9f3e0b5ac5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tefapasuveviko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908aou23jtcp4u6s97jcrrbrn0/20669559554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb8b2da60b---gifugerobinapodozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62259bf3ab69e13f1f1db2e9e9fef9f/90841522804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-restaurant-plainfaing.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26925672517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1c79373bc---bibofozimujunumadunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/48902993700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16122900bed314---35651260680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/xazoresulovapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a68dc9e3675c7e735f9d221b19d230/20440379834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885161a8746---90700855346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c78246d2ae---lagudizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/wunifazuxekazisegifitasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e24ce941f6c196375827876a38ef82f/53701755016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e4d439957---sifezugisaxiwariba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609193ec896f2---gidunaxazediwukotimuwiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4e8674c5efa7bfe489c0bf17d892fa/47949458189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/kalixomemubimejukodexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/95488997538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/d54e048364e3e80a7303971bbb9cfaa7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510163846494231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/tomoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/zixowujorotozugomivatize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents//files/zofevatugikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+trigonometria+3+eso+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_off0000d58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58E 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 2dd207ba224c2187b4448c3ee570f547c71e756ba8889f5b13e6a84edbec1972
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2F 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 54bd814f76370b9e449ad5391118f491564c99ecfc44eeff808a93226d73067b
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1