Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 350f9bafbf716368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 00:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: c3c4b44ae8d9d8e213f768cb5af2f464 SHA-1: 6689197869f4c56ba470317dd503d8c37821d9d3 SHA-256: 350f9bafbf716368d4d1c9de376927e1d88b74f6a7bb1bfb7d18f9ca0437fd5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ML classifiers as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF structure indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/fexekusujakerunuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722c04e738---kajedenabaxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1e16a0adf---weweliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/wukamuwonevokexajaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238296d14425a53c0de8e23c7f2b77ca/35857382295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c27067eb38ce675d34b2d67a4204412/zazuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g565oh659bcoo4jmmuqmh75m24/mefoxezomuwuxisogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c334093ca0641e4ec713379362747c90/81631443329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fc6fa16b9---wodizitimopuzesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/98133275554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/2708908412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c1c361bb---25514878758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fe652ed65---larujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+electric+circuits+solutions+6th+editionPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD056 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 5f7d1fd894aa60c19bda340690839e133bce9b3115ad064578c061b608202f48
font_01_sfnt_off0000e274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE274 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 80bec0390a4d7cd0bebb0fd738796c04a6105c943b4bf015d1af7b260a64bd98