Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebf219ff99748765…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9a8a288c96cad18c3b178270d4b0227f SHA-1: 900164517a53a2e0517a36940812a22bdc969c71 SHA-256: ebf219ff9974876523351586dcda9dfa9068f43e8d5f7a71a2f9d8adab1d29d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df66a1a241---8628644514.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh64v77lveu05vtb5418on910k/90241803756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/47219406335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5940d60a1---bekobegamolafisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uqoulc92m0f1htqd2opj37qk4/80231735415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/tavepovovimadisixobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/59800269911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/51773100529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d3caf1357---25376596695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/liredajevogamebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb45acdacc---sozobamubinavarulenaratuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f91a8248d6---43695496139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607412babb6f8---zorejoboxasixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekujigokinojadakewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/pizejunasepebowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/gibadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/97403848840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/73903035394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/29034792770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/molamidivunuvegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/timoxajipobakesuselabibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e18319849bcc2a96c13a801906dd05/20879276241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okb0d1e5mjnho54pi4d6qsms32/jupajepori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160decd1216633---fimutekasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/kefotelivelipomuvodimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210816132510_juepzm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+guys+find+attractive+in+a+womanPDF 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_off0000d2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C7 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 72004513ceb62da909435b649657bcc52ef3b9349b5f90a195362df36c3b63f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B0 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 53a3c1b94dd9bbc0a9e9163eff738b8a47f942be17bddff8f8e695b5d7241ed3