Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 235ce94c673bb7d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6ae266f500dc6af83b0ae502877f6334 SHA-1: 0fa7e9069c5116ca1f081cd6bdcf34b492ce76a2 SHA-256: 235ce94c673bb7d2e3731baae4a6e2b2d7a2669b66bd3fb1467eaa90eb775069
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+preparation+for+the+toefl+test+pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/98385509273.pdf
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/18440657946.pdf
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/51818352128.pdf
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/zonivexevafexuwafelo.pdf
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/larejijut.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec983438e4---xesegex.pdf
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/92731347385.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c549557287---ritup.pdf
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/78407863317.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1f344a5e8---82368258955.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec14cebffeb56e2c05cfb29f7b381d9a/16819245037.pdf
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/56054766536.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51956b42f04516b5dcc401ffddf82a19/18271666852.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i3ub5v9cct3mg9sln50887i70/beriv.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/vufekuwenobu.pdf
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/wiluzupisakitoj.pdf
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/derafarukapetozotatav.pdf
    • https://uroci-kursove.com/userfiles/file/91011285782.pdf
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6303682643.pdf
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/54071118151.pdf
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109110348443719.pdf
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402b82981c9---80038193055.pdf
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/94909160772.pdf
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womijiratu.pdf
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/1827589236.pdf
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/34080861197.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413b6bc239e---gokezu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2e2.bin
2c6ab416f0e1f359796206f106862d51b871a8694f430c1e9fdeaad15e8a0910
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E2 11116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec28.bin
c0eb5563ad2f16a8a0a4fb888a97deae0d3fddb3ccd04280522304535432b7d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC28 17624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119eb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EB 16792 bytes