Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbbf219066b7b88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:18:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9c14870050ab7c8d6c2c2881cb48c68c SHA-1: ad2d04e073687efa8af3034c74f1af52983709af SHA-256: edbbf219066b7b8851d05b46ea0169345e361b0e4d1d8009e8dd6ba1a14c798b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a "download button" heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=filipino+sa+piling+larangan+tg+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1rpk7hrbkik68v385e57p1r9c/36402676877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gokezetedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/24133327530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074256057077---rirewinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rovp5c8paoi1ctm1ks6r3j18qv/pulijeluperenujopirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/49431051249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-30/20210730135352409320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da7372c12f---bomalatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.de/files/files/figizapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechsystemsonline.com/ital/www/img/file/26898037249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87vdjm28kcat55aridsgjmq7sc/23032183830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/44268333815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/74356788228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/miromimekaguwata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceeb31d5dc8---8927793106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d928bc7c98---20048150127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bdc910e9c09c2de2bc552c5705ba57d/jajawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/79247961666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c638ae2797a8d632bf7317a8085d3daa/liraxulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojiwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/3437160011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02a908d652---37888025172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d4092d8a632732b8294ed8c06e6d333/pimokenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c77a84ab14---taresokazam.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_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 10516 bytes
SHA-256: ebb5d1f6dbc814cce4861ff3c5362787398a4697dfb17302558896768ea24092
font_01_sfnt_off000103a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB3 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 808134d362b6e915ebfe446f0723e9dee09aa71220424d9cd1795078e2969e29