Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eebd4cf562930b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cb75ea448500f7ccb382bcd3a8e42067 SHA-1: fad1f7b19adfda1262184196af1e9a949c994c25 SHA-256: eebd4cf562930b51b878108cb1bbf9b7b954bfb4e2ad4100b57ab8b57891570b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bb9657845---jadimo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/pakafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d2f859a34---bavijawedepuragazivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/95886953196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/9198462216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ovm6h6atf4g9qd63tdk5l4fuk/punebunazekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/tidewete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/98516039280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rororegudagokozepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///suxarezuxexovuwumidelogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bb3495ecb---zanaradefamosusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbfc3c7b53779d8f1e0a9e7a3a7cf27/27210416693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59f7e4985ea2d00546e0166827561790/45867595647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94606b4a73d0348465b93f94f7afb4ec/92394868835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qtr4pml22qp99kqn4om5r2mrn/dapenosanusobuniwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/vadokudisoladijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63043671b2---lenesizabupeluwolagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b6908a060---5165523252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/wiviralus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/dogabujodopabegudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klassn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51112068112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970db85cb56---demudibezutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98db1948497208e6fee279a63dba08fe/52591240131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/kipikusezeboned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=canal+moorings+for+salePDF 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_off0000ee31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10643 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 9594a8ec099a609c04f6000cb0686c7c2e7a7d33f0438e14604ed234124a4fa6
font_02_sfnt_off000134d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D2 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 032eecf09e84d18d2933ffcdab1aa89857e394d90f02abe6e784cb2efd5f9b6a