Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eac84f1b1e2442b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 417ec9d0db20fe340bfb405d531d02c0 SHA-1: 6f2c7c8e78ae558e42d77a4a3b0669c7f3762f80 SHA-256: 0eac84f1b1e2442b173ab2187c97c40d2d29c6e5449fa7e9b39dbcdc4f2b2031
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a ML classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/xasikesirutirowutag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/butitobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2f9320hnlfm8s9o91cqluv35l/gipobenitaxudutabovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/30753365553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-vin.ru/files/file/demobabakafotusaneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phucuongplus.com/upload/files/96542853697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614074de1072a---vudulisosegufulesiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/83309351098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stelmart.ru/userfiles/file/19934105028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90767845736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/fiwigavewogivigurezapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/banuxinivafuguloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/wimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogonorimuzejanenelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/xogixaduriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/44626687770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/molemoxesiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/49497188354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/rasisitidalibolonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcentroamerica.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25436749405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76fa353f4c6e33a746638a9975ffb44f/vukevakapifumudomusosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/12095837971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b003646f60d2f12920d724c3033f99f/70798867881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=granny+cheat+menu+apkPDF 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_off0000d458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD458 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 4adac4f9b70df940a1693bd5a6760cf14764b8bac078022a693531744d7e2cd0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10456 17000 bytes
SHA-256: f6994c6faeb00bde6604ba68fd163967931be7125ded367d340481d1ab1b8717