Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dccfc543c0849c79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 113bb0a4974cc969b0a0e25869784ad8 SHA-1: 343f5854281febaeab5c2c1dfd90b650567f9320 SHA-256: dccfc543c0849c799284e6280f5775245250453b8c604e25ef4b4cf4a7316215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+16.1+download+free', indicate a lure to download potentially malicious software disguised as a game update.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=minecraft+16.1+download+free PDF link annotation
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fb95234da---rexomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/lowapegebupaduzutiladosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/266422363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.co/userfiles/file/vaguvikulekexusapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/9067769491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamdq.com/filespath/files/20210902093420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/fatovoromod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/nedatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasijejuveluliveziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/wenabefesumovuwutafawelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/19262665891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkschoenenverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/33181188350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyochonbuenapark.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/xojitesumameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/vadevidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/rabovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/79268642927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubb.cn/up_file/file/linolajasewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/fakisawonejowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/67258333814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/tegagerup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/9196759539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13f9c860e072c5529774e56cbcf4511/50314496533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e94b2ca033---taxugoxazejevasoxuvuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b95unoa536adofm5h.com/userfiles/file/43430645668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109070827309951.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_off0000bdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD600 15864 bytes
SHA-256: 82d0a5b5862d7680b7ccac76420d76f81c07bcc64c93a6c4e28251cb521b2b41
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE86 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 758fb2f240ea785f93aea98d72395897fceb4093ce6bef362c00f7be221e4a19