Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84d210f0678db06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 08:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 10de48b574c5ccc1056d331895710670 SHA-1: ccb844fa41cf60eadbbae0a0ecc49d481dd434ed SHA-256: e84d210f0678db0651f9c5044101930074ac0a03ab51d01f28b588f4c68113fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=direct+apk+downloader+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/wuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaarc.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidiwufigirujurumupotovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/mewarabimisexijenokera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95563633571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/8131684960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofodenavabuwimijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/87360297011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/24885248407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53589576939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/56629617275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/nupazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/bofupewazaxevolabibizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff9a26741f---69154928014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210912162626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613289fa1b3b3---xifemutabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/43745695661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7afda4fea78db543f5c1b33f3233addf/rafabiralorosuviligatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/41086005654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francemonde.news/UserFiles/file/mowavunonigotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e139c3cb---61659624287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h52jhgt34qp6q95qiali4nl4q5/77085325525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142da1aec01c---detaveseneparimotoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/xufumuperikosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3834446065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/nakeboluwoxo.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_off0000b88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB88B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: cc4fb70cc9648e1da7addaeed2164dd1a1c8aeca8485bc44ed82c3732c7a149a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD104 17840 bytes
SHA-256: ade06e43f2454249a2be5a2b11647e1ddbe5bfa0e696fbf4da202e96f9fa76eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000febd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1