Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 347671857e3b9dec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 13:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 991e48d6434518989eae471b6e29d0a1 SHA-1: 1539321da495529e52036a79629b927fad8e56d7 SHA-256: 347671857e3b9dece297cfc0d433ee3df4b885e5e7af24c0759bc2b3586aa9b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious files on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://stevis.cz/files/file/felinanada.pdf
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202107/file/1626232927.pdf
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bikokujesatix.pdf
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/vugenatojawufegiz.pdf
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/57856198927.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/rizifet.pdf
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17eb8e237fdc801ae389601649f8d555/64421096494.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5j5bboirf6f56olsitvmfu4n7/9491288910.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5905699438---57959383513.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609680aaaae75---77142566606.pdf
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50609669113.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ea0bd70e3---laxilasef.pdf
    • http://dollreunion2020.com/clients/4/43/4392dc7a9e9236654a628da0af121bbb/File/xapolalapuvux.pdf
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/32784261486.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e79ca14eda---52937651670.pdf
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/zijobaro.pdf
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/44700973631.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45c2254dd4---62385991417.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ed5a81dfd---fewiwudanu.pdf
    • http://primehorseproperty.com/userfiles/files/lupebofaru.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c200d637---7975048497.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa715bde6d1eb09ac176e5f91b371419/27716456188.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6db911357574d3b249d198c4740333/326516732.pdf
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/wirogokakefurasonu.pdf
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/rifudofefapaboroso.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=astronomical+phenomena+for+the+year+2022
    • 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_off00011d70.bin
ce163fbe3c9b433f44115760a9ff067c3f9ee9f90f1e89e7bc1399da65102dd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D70 17072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000149a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149A8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000161bf.bin
f1edc16eafce4329efe009edbb2cf7c42d1c4aff4149fa5bc5212b4b48bea7a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161BF 11084 bytes