Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebee5cdd3f7c7b82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 15:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7af6012bb6d745a07ea053a59de17f43 SHA-1: 7609dbf44c149415afe4f85c589bed298d232e0e SHA-256: ebee5cdd3f7c7b826328443a7f0705946fad423abb2699591c4a5c1bf591d742
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure with a full-page screenshot and a click-outward action. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself indicates a malicious intent to lure users to external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://thoitranglani.com/upload/files/80721033612.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c281ec0781044b87ace1ea2342a922/79520003723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/zejokosaruvinelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/dudatufanalivasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/jopebobojuvimive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/kidulufoputejoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aiddhbkcq5bcaz.xn--p1ai/upload/files/28919878289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonibikoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/tipesolanetonutunupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138575c39d1b---9068409374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/56931437919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huabulaw.com/uploadpic/2021-9/file/2021092100124473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/44781280175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152ac935d8a9---75575598247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210913_075410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fujote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/31683817630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egf60k3cjgetshjato1k1qhiv6/lezotisekoxifitovepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/xafogogeveligifoduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/wonirarigidoduwanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161536b5843c9b---39414116334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itscebu.com/upload/file/20210926050016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=another+name+for+baking+sodaPDF 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_off0000b205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB205 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 6d60e5b0ac024f23e61fd01ef9ddd891b6fab913d0d8218ab905f479d5e1aaa1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1A 14156 bytes
SHA-256: eb56a4e37587a8be38cc02fe5aecea2f10dd26d08a13abb85e21ae4bb687ffc7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1