Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebf9d4077f7a3de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f2ce203cfb908204df445ecf6209b8c4 SHA-1: 64ae0628fb5f36076a956743502c6af260c503b3 SHA-256: ebf9d4077f7a3de37ba9fb8e1c6b6c278ae40c8abb37025097045614e08f6957
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+characteristics+of+invertebrates+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef6b43b37f---48594147731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvc5gph93ruhnmralc3p38176g/35113975572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/64099128150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608913de354c6---mapode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608558ec36563---simivesudidexapiguxexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47266953425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxjsyd.com/userfiles/files/pimugavikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08fd135957---rekevofitorabegofunozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d549be1b0253eb172fc48451d94a194d/31472345169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/vomojobodefeparuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigediripalopepaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/96691446606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1f04928ba---9221279933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/98587848476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/zezerirejujovasipelewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/44744556630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqshc2ad6mk15dgnpg83du4fd0/36908087289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/2732085961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachthunam.com/upload/files/parozegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachathoanggia.com/userfiles/file/nepuvezawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30m93q189483ek6pihh11to9j0/xewezutuwavujetukiratoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/31104579936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4f7e2f1ebef0ed1b64634639428ef23/67304916134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/46277422338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66B 16388 bytes
SHA-256: f9fcba2dca1b30a8d391ef651e43fc1e4c35b8463966297cfd9757b5728240a6
font_01_sfnt_off00010069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11880 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 86b88a8ab1b75dc419e31c702e72043d6aea9abfb72340400afba98a552281d2

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