Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeb15b16afc89ac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 83a7fe043fb9db43aa829b725e189687 SHA-1: 1fd46e648f33e387a46d9a2f67088ba7510bdd50 SHA-256: eeb15b16afc89ac155551ea6173875c114076f0987ce39beb6d51591383a405f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The presence of a visual download button and numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic suggest potential exploitation or JavaScript execution within the PDF.

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://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/81560564221.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f3cbb62a16207c7955b99f8652ed45/17100791685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb9cbab7ef---tanape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/85643049907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137102c508dd---22650434805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210901160110432772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/41964290622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seto.cz/uploads/57020332269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ritunokatunuzidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021091206022373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5afb55c6d---kuwujezanepebunorusozitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210912070231_2w7c7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedotataji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/66802216044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/47270586815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/62632907556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/lapogobizasenufarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210921021821_7ifsk2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/ronimexasavatanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/kekatadekajiwasudipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/12170862014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jusopagovavidulaviripoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0730826001631340745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/sesabefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mx+player+for+android+10PDF 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_off0000dd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7B 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 381d23c2b3501af15c74f1af67250be104f09d77b79fe48e504924518f63366a
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFC 10608 bytes
SHA-256: d5630401279be35f529000465281809f57c55d1d743b220aa0ed703968fa9707
font_02_sfnt_off0001245f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1