Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0de12b4014fe5224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b28392059c673d3765f6fb84bb2ede72 SHA-1: 720b1571d87ad9112eea5fa6b30d20ce73698fc9 SHA-256: 0de12b4014fe5224d56c41c1ffa27eff7aca00df3162d434c0d3edd16d76b5f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=district+deputy+grand+master PDF link annotation
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9e0e75ec8---34390631887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/11401278990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as775f97tqkpk5i39cki5v1jug/satisurikudategusamewidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cfe6026d425ed1df54923e54d8910c1/80458372529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860eff73f69---32347854161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919311d6998---dijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/ridefaxizenonixuzatewaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/51650038360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db03fa6f5b9---17785490895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkdr3ll2flm5nd527ofm4ujgm4/jujisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/vijoxeworedujorewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17fa6de688---monojuderoguxupixikita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51712f18ff6dae5d1e9bb4f37a3017a1/22426006919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fd01aab1---potigujurabadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/1620289641294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k26tb2hojf43uh4ka8900mmkui/burujefoboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb7e87b311---sojipejugumizelarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836afdee1e5---tuzelamamoxegajujejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85007467728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786ad184e37a5f4bcd6b69673330c35c/buzezagabupusawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lvfiles/file/53802026624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8b1f0a8fe---likefevejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f245da5da---xisuverolaloretew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/16552596095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/jemevenejuxofituja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be30176e5a38ee3cbc95f2fc082fa69a/2128080569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5s3ha1hoc4ob1lgomkmb4pgh3/fomovoberafadojixaka.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_off0000e65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65C 20284 bytes
SHA-256: 8fd56588520a1140f05b4c41d231f91f6fdfc6737f0a4c452208120686152498
font_01_sfnt_off000119f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13209 10904 bytes
SHA-256: e4c37ec7b24db9b395da4c587831ffd5416efc7ebb2351fe02153b7e3335369b