Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 035b6a9e07ab706c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d1857b652498d27279a7c301708d8bfc SHA-1: 7555eeb70456993cd5d122236f08e7a33c89def7 SHA-256: 035b6a9e07ab706c48d4001cf35ab6b06a3f0c21bf13e22809757f346f75a983
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, likely redirecting users to phishing sites or to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/87932087043.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109130827352190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_7DE2F5205DCE00C8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/394305_53227951436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/mofotajibife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasavewarimuroxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5e738a5eab1a51efed19d0b8233028/73302688549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021091223142973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfc8e7d096---rawitukafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebakimawezabepozuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/pifekipixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/wigepabaxetoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/72108373444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213a3f48bef0d7317391f47972d74cc5/zonakuxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/seguziwipenitezolaramulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890b2303146a12faed2c7e61d793ce73/musonolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apothepharma.com/upload/files/baxonakajeburubesebewimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrentals.com/userfiles/file/90874303759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bdce58105---soxafupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakikifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835d37ba5a38e3bdac46f7f0e3c69449/melelotoromanesofifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tannhatviet.vn/upload/files/58874878168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=arc+welder+chrome+macPDF link annotation
    • https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazageposofagekibeline.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_off0000d319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD319 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 6662c6dd7729fbabc4eec0c550519feef4c653ea8dc744b2685030bf169b6a1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001023c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023C 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 26a4138c26c924571c9bc7a52ff4124b814f8aa24134054f9f12b2dd332b9bad