Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 352b41249ef93499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4c683e2b2bfe8b64f0060279fca765f5 SHA-1: ccbb7e1267906a6238a2028cc96c25adc103946f SHA-256: 352b41249ef934992d311485fbe929c88e321e2083131291448a569804910f2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=whale+done+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/92936769579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/66283426628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddc1d6789f---ferowajozomerupuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/6689677037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/vogabekopiposiroroxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/31938588972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/46464767292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/radimadodomatimonano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm7cbd59ec6t6fsrpke1ph9vm6/72856129329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/84681777510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df64cb6f6b---lexewatixokuwejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f7e804b3b---66328342409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/7872793289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofuwuvifanotawevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700865dd8c8---81276252961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/10796066792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b32ad81088f21cf008dde5f7054962/xulifatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0a8aded75---mekiwibagaxavekejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab66f6c9cf28d0eab3c2b99139f0c8a/19663589253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607130f5124d9---sipefuxabebewadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/rovolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dibefubowutupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/gekafidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/8692170583.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_off0000ed44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED44 10132 bytes
SHA-256: aa9424b9a5b3c9a150bdcbfdcdfd782e0be5c79848006e1f6e0a973eaca2c980
font_01_sfnt_off000103c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C3 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 6371e422e22256d53282c4159924a7e1791dc58d2daa400d8f3209e693ddcf9c
font_02_sfnt_off000132d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1