Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe31be855aac6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

173.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f9eecdc93641ba31e30784b3bfa9167f SHA-1: c0dbc06c51899003c04d1743f3b7a71fc009eacd SHA-256: ebe31be855aac6b3842435bc5d423c86cd35932ea730f9af71da338b23017a1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing form-upload plugins, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised infrastructure is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9679

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=st+therese+website PDF link annotation
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894acd31b82---85395104051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e47cca218e---wokewogajavukofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/sivowawego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tedexedamijiraluwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/373c5050d720241c64e5156435cdd68f/93037792540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5342ea1d4b---semepedujijolizuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf121cce3c6---87022328862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43g96igd4pn9c5efcreo7rbrc0/texidefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/83611488782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53146d2a7d7708fbf7c811818d5b2e29/mesomopakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4fe6483d4---juvekuluzosoturanodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608156fc13994---fofedixexibinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/vesinivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi992d47kut59te1q44s1523nj/75431580661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fc1075d60---60158338187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05a7ccaa1e---boluvafejazesegurajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60D8283F02AFB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403f90057f---76951905379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e78a65c28b---10985083450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec96929914---lijajapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/475b4397143679c0e79352de23cd31a1/wijesuserojevine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/86481538855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7544b26efbb362d0d71794a5b1b3df17/modewamanabavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocjnn6opv2h7a1621d8ba2no35/diwakobujepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/lorusejimet.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00023dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23DAE 10072 bytes
SHA-256: fba3ab59188b93d006c4206dd070355326531fd16983211e3dbaef96130bf6e4
font_01_sfnt_off0002544d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2544D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00026c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26C5A 1660 bytes
SHA-256: 34d899b9f9c8ea0b523fc0886b696d6f55cd3a83312b2ac1290801ec1505b895
font_03_sfnt_off0002743b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2743B 20068 bytes
SHA-256: 5dec50fb0a4b31fde82dc24966163980d222e6ca542c3e5b64cf3d4704be957d