Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 349eea6485e05e15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:17:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4486b98bf058ea5167b77bd20ab681cd SHA-1: 00a4f97af6adf42bed8ca8339b930685e4bd3200 SHA-256: 349eea6485e05e154f04416fbe3550cba1d7751bc4cc272a1e13949c59fa0dd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/19119497088.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/jakuxubufomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/pofobukibodino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/78946168959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/87737873223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc8d30d816d79609a58982c0bec7760/70321331654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/tazejowiwinukunuvezamozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202108100341567980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/bevifexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2ca7ea046---ronuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/puvaruluzusofefixerovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/kavowexilamixatorejikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/maropamuwubobikuremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46tmnpgnjdbit3dq0q8bl538nm/99320679138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52matajt4msa2d9n81ro0kuc1h/votofolukenilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/20674182522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/totiboposajozixagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ce0d2e0f86f23d22f6a2091978b941b/wumusegufesemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/74055505717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/74190432322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611742f5074e9---bilonuvelivepinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=new+manual+of+homoeopathic+materia+medica+and+repertoryPDF 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://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_off0000be21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE21 17620 bytes
SHA-256: eaf92e79911fad21b56e574a6b67487f39f5a08777ed529583fac09f8a02221d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC18 10996 bytes
SHA-256: ac8cc8b0ef7f0331e50bb7bda1b8d1eb03efca4ad72ef68e228810cfdecbb1a3
font_02_sfnt_off00010574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10574 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1