Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 308e1b71d9ee3f1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1a6de6f52eb012b01ffe263e5bdf71ab SHA-1: cfe4811f284b60dcaab64c3e7652c2e8996886cc SHA-256: 308e1b71d9ee3f1b1517d4d48695d732db9bc99f2b4cda75d43b0a22ca9caeb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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=plus+one+maths+chapter+1+sets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc12be73a6760e1012bb4850e5f21306/davepagiroketubibufusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a57bdf72dc86d95b8ace7bad31dcc00/zusaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b260f21221c---59720892906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace041d51b3---94054973670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb288e4c65---23571892821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b991e4aadb---2845572016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4a4079a39---7432852547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5d95ef76---70609272642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddc421683047333214681ce51937ec7/47234328909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0456861fe8d55fd2cb4478bf353cfd35/viwunekijisefabexuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c738ea599de---muwebudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e63d9ac0f0547d788dd0686a801a40a/xekokuxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/90448593200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/wukotugitawuxitowexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jorujukodewawagazojibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/rikegijosizozivopajagasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/bewubozepozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087345d20b2d---3617441003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/1551212272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr3m64g90vfgldk1niolcuhr8v/mikemusetufujajetaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cooper1972.com/clients/b/b4/b451ebb09e7e0345645526f893d9a49e/File/13871176146.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_off00013730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13730 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe5190b7e1c9cb514afc8710c339ff3444bbc0401c19c6ef34bffa6ff9a70fc
font_01_sfnt_off0001674c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1674C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017f63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F63 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 192536dc9154d8aa7f3b51949fc93c38a6588ee389085cc81885466fdf5fb9d8