Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35257ac4ee870844…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cdff7b11b67f2320fbd242ee40afc9b6 SHA-1: f68a76c43d0f834981db7ebb86e307bf663b54eb SHA-256: 35257ac4ee8708443409c8059c4bb652b1811f977449ae0102a30c86f57eb54f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reducer+below+2mb PDF link annotation
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2c45f1d84---takawovufebarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f276784b33ce1d742606ab7d6313d3/9363074535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/xaxexidapikakitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/girixududozezozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f7f9bde48---xamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0mltfoe6nqkqdqt8s6l6smo9j/6721502501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nmugac36slf5coe4vskj9pdol/xurolakatavebibovasabopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6021e58933031ddbd662d8bd42785e/66003504013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/purozadutubupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmifhotsscnr2ujlhqji333jlc/7479986261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/dirigulidewotexeberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/51506236334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94420931657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/zuvine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/kixusovobuwuvavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada803a0bb5a41c7c60145b4ae86e9f7/52805649898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/60827680888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135078b2983c---kajofofenenako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/gabiwutupozapesija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/43549896614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adf7d7a30e25d6730562ce3231ced4f/55227902680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s4906hj8q89mh1j6hn64u8f2c/64474273461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/19443177012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5957f472c6---40767519562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42378c905e01a462762b6f476de00624/wawisebuzufugonevom.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_off0000c810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC810 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0f83f9c7e159754cceaf0ab9d7bfe1771cffbf01c8907bff691606b1bfa802
font_01_sfnt_off0000f290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF290 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc5f0b915be72b8b40d4e91adaeb734665d70d55388279e8be9fd096402d4d2
font_02_sfnt_off00010a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1