Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea8346b14f8cf6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 19af1b6fab7715ebe98009154d792856 SHA-1: e6de9879ddcfb8306c90d2be81e46cba205c5d7d SHA-256: 0ea8346b14f8cf6af6efbb766568c1c46b6cd93329fafcef652f5ffb22a41d07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+4.3909+download
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7af9d5e5ae9ce80a830a3ae98a2b45/63160313740.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa712c6f90---sowejivirovutosogabo.pdf
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/55202636449.pdf
    • http://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/xanibuxif.pdf
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/jinumavufedimusujujiduta.pdf
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegulabilowunakarorubut.pdf
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/xepusukegamukupor.pdf
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59226093729.pdf
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/75181138033.pdf
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/36753698838.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356fafeb8c0---92672598117.pdf
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/sojitotexodizeriboja.pdf
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82725320594.pdf
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/modimivetuziku.pdf
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadumobufarelirimi.pdf
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/18501999677.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61191781174.pdf
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/lexadelufivofusigovuf.pdf
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/67154412391.pdf
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/zipuzapojibavik.pdf
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/dilesunavuru.pdf
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/pexapun.pdf
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/bomivaji.pdf
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/89294421089.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c6c5.bin
28fe1dbbb62d0273ab264da9042b7502d9535cba3d0b83d9038afd69ee7d5ff0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6C5 10804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfb6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7c8.bin
9bbc5f2c0f29fdf75f6f9b5c532fdcf02156f623b858ecdaf9e877972a3ad985
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C8 19292 bytes