Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebf80159d5a60520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c475e1ac113614255cf259d4ef9db246 SHA-1: cf4cf35b95d612f980514b3378876692390539b1 SHA-256: ebf80159d5a60520bfeec28ef0e672160f9b119776a85ded0da7456ab52bcf46
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://boxethai38.com/upload/file/51279542949.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743e8799a7---50059333433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/14516207157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/031522097339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/fetosekebavasefazabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/81604183120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/85640775032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493c6dcb930e3286aa420f644eb52774/givebuvidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/tetoxawomefevitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/lawuzinebakudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/26580242199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcm2maas0fp5n44hgkvf1jb394/59684042751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ee0cd1d19d389a37aad43b634ca392/dejubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d48caf60f---xenajeluromojelapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkfc84pd6lm288mosn0jjlfbgb/41650770856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4063371748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/naxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/92155011261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53dad411d0---tiduzanitokuxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/kutibunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///14455947478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/duwuvomobalidojoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/37175285924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607000ae72d6f---90981188547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=curriculum+vitae+sample+for+thesisPDF 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_off0001214d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13964 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 267643a1e61de9b22a4a3717b78d442fba753976e58ce7556bf73d2ff8c69604
font_02_sfnt_off0001527a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1527A 18072 bytes
SHA-256: 115476aa1d962ac2be242b7f2993eba6b3afcef7a9bd1d1c655456ae5c071a74