Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe98c6e2eed6bda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dde0970989a809b6e8fbd47109c962f9 SHA-1: 4a70e02cf84775fe1806f68adc0e5166553f2f49 SHA-256: ebe98c6e2eed6bda93952d7f23784f3d8852b92661cbe752d72bb94c1c9c63e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate a phishing or trojan payload, likely delivered via spearphishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4c46bb504---tutapevagibodokivowafepu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086da4d70eb3---lujodolejedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/pemitutokevotusunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cefbfa9f6b---rusobimifutevemejoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcceb2802239cf53d112a200bf9a3a6e/dizopejupevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/bepubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92a4a56fc0---moruvutare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e1a02c226daee14430045c90f55183/peweguroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/gipekewilagoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626cadfde38ace9e9fad12d327fc25e4/donawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0aa4d5a1129337bb1203f701efe8bc/sasalexoluxasuzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53856ed2ed---43174032891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/29827651721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a587815eccb17138e92d4a9fffef74/80813523367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u665jj9pkoc3ofa6foo5q4u2m/99230958625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/48877303631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakefanozusanafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/jiwotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d7b8ff6d20f84d4284f7fa15eaf9414/16992683882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/56482356616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67ede463c7ba5a90781e293e97cb2dc/gofolemejugekijijelagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8babb4219---51116534948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=antonyms+and+synonyms+book+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_off0000bde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDE4 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 596298669bef97c90f3653677b5dca4c501758b0aea12edcb66e863e8befdc3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F4 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 38c027a6c509797bdf612d275f698b4ce018925aa55da94d96882fdfe13f802e
font_02_sfnt_off00010017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10017 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1