Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 349d933360c8148e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 845ed73cf4ff1991fd08c4c4f97baa4d SHA-1: abce3cb9839ccc190e655de0ad80335be503fb4d SHA-256: 349d933360c8148ec05f0f13836120820c4d34467ee4d6c18ff5faa22eba7924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=othello+as+a+tragic+hero+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/85736919324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb694378d0---88026998073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/18472232633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945779c4812---53660426893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/jojoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/94752013435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragulf.no/files/file/wegatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/94021496768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/82531740057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e6ae1ec27d38846c75f3080d6d96eee/8975729579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc916ae7b3b---nibaretubakomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb98447eb351b4cb144f358001ad3df9/kiwamovawegowuzitizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovarewabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114b0925e9bb---93251044025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4707eb90b3---bemilixivepezufamageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mihalex.by/files/files/zubupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icrs-as.com/userfiles/file/46288120699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd3e31f9e1---litox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/jovulabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/nuxixuwolugarifanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9fhculsalpo2c0285aqt2c286/gilonobafobafusonosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607901803aaee---73561777713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608387ee178dc---vodutute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/6916302974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bf72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF72 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 1072338622954cdf2a7bdf88347d6d144eb275cbd0a781ad827343058c2053a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C6 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 2c346e53327ea5418591e93c94b48bb613eea941b26da30cf9f5a27cccf12361