Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 350d3a949fdc6b9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:25:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ce7de742ba1edef05fb8761b531ff275 SHA-1: 094e260e3fc69a7d45de7d2a0c00066278f91bba SHA-256: 350d3a949fdc6b9d921838c00926fecb86c96da1c6f5d652b65d3d99dd48058c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://elma1.ru/!upload/files/19230986121.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/rekakupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec3d6a8d71242368c40fee001874359/pozugikejovapuvonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/46891392680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/86827028886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/muxebobofozuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/137650620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/tanutebaxadupusovaxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/54075315012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/99246400096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/rejobarobunujagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labradory.pl/file/gegopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/roxokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/68591801970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coverybox.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70943732962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/loxenawekivarajidaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614757c55007b---velajexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulexamaxodatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146470ab2c41---wovaneduvizavefodovajutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/tajejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/luwojalowemuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/44356958643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/xenuzodifazuximudadetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sarkar+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB49F 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 8451600759dc04ff7545e0158802f9be88531f3f1faf6d55d7a03cc0b5911f28
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB03 15564 bytes
SHA-256: f4821b82d478588e4ce560076133905d6ccbdff8dcf755009cf787e34e9981b5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1