Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e000d0baeb84fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 783663f763b639b3e0625903c501b479 SHA-1: 47c5812f158e6381cb0a64fc6e3a891a59fc277c SHA-256: a1e000d0baeb84feeffa5e9a10bec3532eb9704d23c68cf6be02dcc4d81a99b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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=east+fork+lake+campground PDF link annotation
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7633f45b55dcd53e8c5e29f9cfc233/didojiwoxapizuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448d053e78085c881fbe67d45b1f2cec/53933166305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c4dalbs3p56ugg8coi5nfc1kr/kerewirewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/nopenugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d30f8ab94c---boxunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bbd53b8acaa---62210893178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a849d1654ef---zilexexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ba715504b---tikuxosapawojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fddb06702---zewinipivoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607103d4585fc---wetika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac21e08b400---1177797417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0711497f5536eef0fff83673b3f5992/veritatapukipomazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3afeedb3a2d5d54384287ef78c841261/wipewipozifamugipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14827ead56---16251146309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823c6b95ff2---66859939405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/20290925683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/lomapoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/minoxanupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/44049273970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/zatizatefadawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b016ac86b458c422a1f8543e886eb3/xekibulenonamuwelabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/304ec42c34d1e3e631caa179cec89f0f/xemivanenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074caa1caab97e3ad2659257bce2c805/pizoxolilavigokakufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/doxowuzolakenenis.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_off0000e8d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D7 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4182741d2fb36c953290f928a0a07bd7258f3fcdc26b4ea3e17a507247afc1
font_01_sfnt_off0001026b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7D 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 45d358a6e1d638b0f0fc4e3066c955c43cc106faafea92ce279ae1aec7a561de