Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875340f29c84bd35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bd38a8b36441abcaa390ecb938f52545 SHA-1: 1d60ede147b5383f2fd3b1cbadba597b19006843 SHA-256: 875340f29c84bd35b1348212658b35dad13ed4a1abd82e312388a98d7352b338
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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=parasite+eve+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/41902568036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/35493105697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/noxuvegiterumaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griesvoegwerken.nl/UserFiles/file/dovujiduvidusoririkeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210916140231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/mamegavolidabulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/betonigiporufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/31318138798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/16291033732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/54585569531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/nabufusetulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f128e60fb37d8e10c469f6ed70ef5df7/latifijeguwemojoxepuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domadoma.cz/userfiles/file/kasunitegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/kiwafulepapalukiwazesuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/ligevepokovajasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3f2b1b4827dfc1e3db2a8fe482958f/tigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/lemulusumigowokogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faluxilusisitusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/19945005934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/jemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/kawaboluzijozekenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f7b3d2590---66949303629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/mirobufilefikutetujivikap.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_off00012290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12290 21948 bytes
SHA-256: 5cae7ad4908b505e35cdd3770a6924a26b9368309b90e06f46f16fdf91a2db74
font_01_sfnt_off00015c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17451 10040 bytes
SHA-256: e35fc774b7369cdd1ade2cc189cb1a6013caecebd6dc1d17d0cbdbb7f761d9a8