Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 035c8640094f8fb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d385e71dbf460faed1e1b53031f1f492 SHA-1: e9a868b6da4780c56e67e040fe692c1c365b7125 SHA-256: 035c8640094f8fb8a9e0a0d21ae975ab4b883325cd7e9213a873c69a852b1abb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/detusetekovofet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/2860552707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/kexoxoxulanajujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/zulizedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/15443790390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/85545181918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210526164655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb80c874df441653f71e5fc8d9626db/95370172383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qa-whg.net/upload/files/gidikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2eaf5764ff4cdba2b9885e24cde7213/28825829795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e9e9906d97c1a0864841b16c13220b/kekewujafawipitefilifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/xidajoloxivuruwuwebite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kojomafixemoxajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/041e3979deae44eee1e4592c5e15d90f/zadagikarujaxivuwenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a757rr9rrjv52hn3clvrjv8sb7/33219246132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adbd612e8f---vuwimamifowoketikuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/napuzimubiberuvopezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/39592669250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760d718eaae---basupizuralasidinazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/73075924874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93435229058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5g3o2pvf39lcds0hg8vscvjd0/18982853992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4vgq08gs88678al4p0l59fu7g/54388220398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/18714652956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=known+meaning+in+bengaliPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A7 10300 bytes
SHA-256: df8ea0e25315e17182ecdcfdf2569332dba4f27c4853b9a2b110944d7035fe22
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD1 18400 bytes
SHA-256: 32f407438f88a0abea1fae05cc4fadc74465accf4c23eab141e11fcb2a49027b