Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e02144941ee623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:54:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1e62f277cd918eb309d172b074434651 SHA-1: e84e47d5d981cb14ab24f8f61d661ebda53d205b SHA-256: b2e02144941ee6239df4e38e95c3dfc36bde8f9f8fb776e6b8134ea775b3f2e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, further supporting the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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=longest+river+in+yorkshire PDF link annotation
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/wapivewabakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27765ca95673919bba8ade2a68794d3f/vosabogixojuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/foxawivifofixari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/6283809689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/fawokunotigamobirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/11020136648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/11436207886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/67236980937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/98472857097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/lefexewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/totunabilenoveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/73407431734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/ruvorepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58634974855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdxqw.com/uploadfile/file/10917209728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/67423511117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentistturkey.com/image/files/potetijetogajodezava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906125813231508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/44597865392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94352558710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320e9cc466c---46492891101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkety-patemal.sk/files/file/wapadozumovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsd6j6o79ts3bbj5uua6vc3e55/sonuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64679182161.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_off000123af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AF 22728 bytes
SHA-256: c0eb718749341d3484d1b91445baf7c7160ca67bc61089cf6e28652b63b2673d
font_01_sfnt_off00015d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17589 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 93c12c314c9091f005a50bc956f52a4998935c1b4798cdb39b20c695daecd6b0