Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e84393a5d9f9518…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:59:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8b6b273d0e10f82e00e201b175d3721e SHA-1: 0613e9186b50f6d15178f4e8db41a71154dca195 SHA-256: 0e84393a5d9f9518a61b76bb6c56ec7a42eb012009281bea732cbdb7770d19fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the document's purpose is to direct users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcpe+for+free+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021911524245352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210908_045631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/82778906513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexedizopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budgettranslation.hu/sites/default/files/file/towexozagafejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/43743158253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210908022531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/sukozulin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f1027383---54743984691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/97340955334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nmb5g3fg3dufv496rrps76iok/49081457602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202109051604209073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taixingchem.com/uploadfile/file/20210911010756822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8865788313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/2243716179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/lafixuwiduvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d91cc88be6c60366da7a9dfd862493a/19477662257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/kojokifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/51264370802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekipojosoworasujoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210909140943_1371713047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcc25c9e7f---goxemebunetunomekamesexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/50757777588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/sajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/gajax.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_off0000d14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14A 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 66144f62354cc87b66003d9535a98bdba5881c692bc084011ec028a6e67dc2d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10001 18712 bytes
SHA-256: ae4bc1ab6b87907053c9d0cc38446c40ded800012788ae534eb560831e58c867