Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebeeb07f0b31c138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:57:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a4d04f4271b057e986da29b8605605d SHA-1: d0a9e146a83dc0204aa8663c0ffe25fb56745d16 SHA-256: ebeeb07f0b31c138be3e5460ce660bcff96bc55fdd59f1e8f96d48e5e66ff03b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external links and the heuristic firings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/mivirujezuko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa32100f30fb90c1da83ab475986f54/55269408679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b01431dd7---wuvatikigugajoravitoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/75985332215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/rumuworavulopezeninena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingnature.ru/files/files/58633247116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ef5d1ab32---jorabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a2d72bfa7---73956950012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/userfiles/file/58662958281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bfc197f09e2e08796fb8f29614b058c/54958732321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e365710880---fanusurikufomubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613021e462cc0---bavosaguxoremimawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/16705835317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/kisekomikabimudikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/45777217572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistys.com/userfiles/file/67597489466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c47d2abf02---wesupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcaa7ccccb---28849382262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/8414011286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875cdb87877---54265299992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mh9e2oa7ll1r14ahv6pk7p3630/71063817889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2da8d9ef1---duvutemusetepimejomapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021824021277358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=getting+tonsils+removed+as+an+adultPDF 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_off0000e441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE441 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 24acd7813f3367eea0709adee174c4931fe5080d036ab7f69bd7d6767abf87c7
font_01_sfnt_off000113e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E5 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 9134e83afb6b46010c90293b55a82b162c256d21f488aacaf461059caeb8279c
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1