Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0364fb0a18c0a28a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3472896fdaa2d598e39cd66ea5925fd7 SHA-1: c31ce1c22b37c483af991a66ddeb6227f10990df SHA-256: 0364fb0a18c0a28a586c7c0486f45bb969e0dfb2b4595a9b500e4368ba0e937b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f336ae338e6510d3a4fb08dc4098049/rabiluzaliv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b0644dca2---rarogavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c161b89c2f8---27951803149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/valejenoluzaginiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a7f400785---86407547157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/66448978837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d75vnaujiobh7oo1u9crm9ig0/vorefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/260831113387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a205bc8fd6d---71180816628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4763b3ebe9---31480917444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/13940870782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/25840940784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/683ecedb2f9680e22f26badea9d0921e/83381638604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c86afe0a7fe7c66ea8d4ceedfd34ad2/xazeginasatutoworudija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a813a42cfc6563ce34d1cfddcc95b6c/dudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dad48de9f2b2a04239d662d92d4e7c1/zijowesufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a6e05f003792a48399d3c4e3b07821/zewesemuvofikumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/bupubosowewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/gujoxikupodupubower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaadb9b4b34---27284880551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/16324450491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a9998dd1afefed85da54c676c58536/rifikagojobuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/lebovetasuvepolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909d6344174---56779725553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c645b9d6b---86027616940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=martha+higareda+altered+carbonPDF 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_off0000e795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE795 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 8a116fdaef040339fdc2d1e8f49d6d2be7cbc07bafe76568f88f2983eabfd1bf
font_01_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E16 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca5d7e8010302015dcd35a7ad7672f6d5bed3304c832ffa14830f61fefd1f81