Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ce080616083fd99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-15 17:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 49f3f92411960b618c86e4b2b609e993 SHA-1: 91ec325be1de8e9af367a4671317e53b6ea18993 SHA-256: 0ce080616083fd991bf341cbf82f62dcc70d59d020b9ffd0067f8edc7411b76e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+nmap+scan', suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with common phishing techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+nmap+scan PDF link annotation
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15e8876165---9784830393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g87fe2e1odb3k0qam59kr5j20t/jabedemevorojujetaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifegapasunowufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4fcbc6d1b---tevumiteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b11186b2e---varosolezobagitofofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/92444888394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/jebajodozikusupipifasuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb086c2d9dd---85129719335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608751b27a13d---rakajefefamoleturepajepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210614020806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/38655347483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/miae5v3o33muoccv6p4t5qqg27/waxabakewojovejali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/51194075382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/13123893704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908457e77a1---75942097797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/vemumojakotebezulajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EE 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 3f75cb158e58ab9a9903dad87620d1074ad033fc5863469298f058b7c8b22db5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DB 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 0be5d5a60c57930e6cc63e9e956764c08cf4f009edabc949061d6a919639a34b