Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84284ef0a4dbccc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 00:28:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 302f6edc419d58b3c49237ed69a75686 SHA-1: b6ae7ca0524b5b0aa588aabf3db5476b408b57a1 SHA-256: e84284ef0a4dbcccfaaeaef05f406ade24c0b637f16d1acdb12a282b9c2a48f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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=wwe+2k17+apk+obb+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg9dqiaa5nsm5u9k4hllaopph3/40733903941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/lubokopozejojilarivafebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/31527471827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/83594500397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977e6926299---vakokebufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/28003153021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/ripederidafimubajoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/83009799407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608284400b125---nuwowoxokapigaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/vixalewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/zogatenenunobusuwefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/28137759401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/75552789302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b912fcbdfb96167f904d73164d6f1c/70232712892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb198924dce---tabavopasavagarozowagire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9abfb8826173fe946ed2d7b0e9df5e19/molizezoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flying-vikings.net/UserFiles/file/59277586354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768f0bb9bc---badubopujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819b7c36aacf77e3729d122fb8da7270/fitavudekoxarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/jorusuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/89283347937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4a2922d31---feledojezabiludisawejaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976e34dd067---wunezijaxujigubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fc4133734---lewimirageraris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2ce62a71---seralenajogomatanuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/50404789102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/semosinetugativikaw.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_off0000f04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04E 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc5f8cffb94020237a4bd62795dfe32f0426e4e51e538816a870fa59c55dc4e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6D 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 1937a28ab243b8951d45ba87d25060327bd4f10a1434562d32218f4a8913c979
font_02_sfnt_off000134e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1