Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d35cc8651dd4901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4587c46504d2e8c74ed9879d5bf23f2d SHA-1: 66790864690da98f484962c6185a67a8bbf200aa SHA-256: 0d35cc8651dd490126f87899e96a8e6c41758db5e5e8855a53dc6f0ef9107aaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised infrastructure supports the classification as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7291811e47a1fd6d3afb9bb9f4a44c29/66160458962.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/nixiwasixuragon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315500f9f8795b2712f117dbc1d7a6af/99725010430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/42599926544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/86677869970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19v9v5sbm312f8mvfeicurh8si/waxebedubarafibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e50c34c670---39243511092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/nijonalesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/pijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/642529949f0934dc1f29f161547d4c22/rufepodujilerijubunova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehayemek.net/upload/ckfinder/files/37296739369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811088657dc---nulajukezuvusifesudutofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/kewavilumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/82878005911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/zolelajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/70356270673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/33860992503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7487f649d499de758d339c19f1569a6e/xexitunugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22161974845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db5oqadg22ouq2upcbmkog1ea0/witelasixudasepatapodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lamotujomerujitowekamuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9bc6a8b2998e45c4b4bd4f368c0ba9/nitexuwevudikepuxalowasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaadfwa5aftjhxrkcrg8iwc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/dirukumarekafamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796fed8e12d---37320586370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a708875d769---zuxaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reader+software+for+pc+windows+10PDF 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_off0000db04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB04 10828 bytes
SHA-256: cdaf481b6955e43e1f00e9019e8a1a61be4efd5db558bdbd7d6b3ae225636db4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF437 19140 bytes
SHA-256: a9d127f129165ada039a4bd42652ad07afb359f7d64196be40dd3b07e30f0867
font_02_sfnt_off00012463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12463 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1