Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce6c01d275b128c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 12:42:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8832603e7f246cf3d252d842f3b04157 SHA-1: a84802448afbd84c7f74e25cf130a19987bcb45c SHA-256: bce6c01d275b128ca50f32fe9d0b580a559376a41648ef5eb6ed9983e9d29307
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=calabozos+y+dragones+juego+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c6fcbc69d---netalizupewamerasofefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/50070650520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuk6gecikoc05gga8q2rbtmt80/segigapojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/98847775855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cba3c9961fdd8a83a27a581b1f11396/20133306200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb9khemsc647fqf75duiqqgqj8/58181512167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnf4opgp9tio13e34e8nl8tab1/82093238901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/78862084535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d030187c56bad21376038b51c30b578/gisopegugamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2cd8f4952be0c00011f56428edf0895/musibugilujedotozufumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/somekanibivelizawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a16339417a407c331735312a64faae5/nanifetoxoxugazirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873d65834b6---zazotuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a42d5e3c6cddcb8eb69e1866c48d2f/64025536484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846bfbd2d6d---28209863174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2af24c35878ac9d21998f8f0bcda03/82140999123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/50161251832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF64 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 260a4c3414dd9d574a11791257a2c72a559e57ae798d39ab8dbb5cb4283c2c2e
font_01_sfnt_off00011164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11164 12348 bytes
SHA-256: bde2cf804d2ef1629f619e0a7edabefbdddf8b9591aa6e86358694e94d9d72b2