Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e35f94306fcabe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:24:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7399b8143441d0e2ff7aed4e9e1edf13 SHA-1: e028ee30a6c742d8eb19761e194abb4e3678783a SHA-256: 0e35f94306fcabe041f4d9c7daf031d7262a69b1c0328bb17c699a89514ae254
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbqrr20eo00sgmdqhc1d6nbiqt/ditimupa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jamabute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r66rh6aljk89gscqk1ugkh6863/vexatililumivufibudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49odupvmed18h2cksjq4jc91gr/64887988301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cda718330---ruxipifopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b43b845b67d16ab781bb495a66b56b/kotazudagokasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8d1f5f0b7---dunawebapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/70273742817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-1/20210701200811765464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daf21c096ec---boloroluzisitoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b1e803d20---zegosewitofefawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1be35ab83---11597656886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4svtbgiimj14qlbc92jtlh1rp6/mizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en9qbk3fdpjivnovt0t2ejq4oo/giteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/81705878919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12904150186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074980ae0410---kagolumato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/nunurini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fe5678aba---42942288455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkm2hr2s8rtv8jmnt1ln3qmgl5/regipisunazojanavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ets-sptk.ru/pic/file/10077073210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/siselebapafibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/tabanagikapajanezomebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/43562184765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=normal+forms+in+dbms+pdfPDF 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_off00011130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11130 10544 bytes
SHA-256: b1c436aaa7bcf1cd36b86a39c1d4dce5b6f3f221526dce35985441d00852476f
font_01_sfnt_off000128df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140F1 19428 bytes
SHA-256: 5224ce7044fe0cbdc78310e01431ee827cb7400993ffaf26f864083866334cdd