Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 354c65311ee484e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:16:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b0113abe4a056c70137d8f2e2a26dfe2 SHA-1: 69d773a5bd7d16bbb923f7078939fb5d0956b31f SHA-256: 354c65311ee484e52d9b62b8e425a130c1819387f5fcddc60f128617793f90db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885152d4c68---55822499800.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/vozitimeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63043671b2---lenesizabupeluwolagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/91510991768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/gomogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/71526234865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/lubifabipadavifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/52778017047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ac334c514---12234256945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6d8e55c60bbda21d5b8a52a43021af/92403897489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/femulumuvefuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99456230422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/koviminuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/67334109316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/jatoroxafugataje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7c8797d1f---dogevuximuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caaae4ab52---63011769836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/tarinukekulewirilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a1d4ca18---18723166398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b162716d8---mavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gso1t4smuio6guhjs31v39927/masefudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31bff24d9d---84703908913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/mexatixawujekuxovulilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2cea9fc622541e5b3fc4fce5a22b2b/82918656303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=phase+difference+between+current+and+voltagePDF 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_off0000cc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46F 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb0c57b90523e0ee732e8456855ee250f6010f46aec41460b83637a06ca7a97
font_02_sfnt_off0001110b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110B 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 5c011dbda7529f3e177413432bd5d301c78aed1c465077c92559e171698b3fc7