Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 354ecef4972b0cfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b09486d8f9ff60a0f6ef382b82b5e1ec SHA-1: ed3a9f2885b44bce220d22dbd6166bc86cd15bec SHA-256: 354ecef4972b0cfa6e1b93c218d396a80593dfbdda7a7c6bcd5452ef5c0bfafe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or downloads. The PDF structure itself is heavily obfuscated, and the document body is unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+guardian+angels
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/posn3sqibno4sechn5l8vp1ab2/71505921510.pdf
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c5292a786371b39a4736053196783c/deturavo.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703a8a3c0f5---61421753177.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be01715aa26---ridimulekapipiz.pdf
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu5vqs85btvdqvdlfotshjf5ll/vevoxorukipebitete.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4l1bvp9lq04spauhdag1jgk1c/gubupejotig.pdf
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/28545683402.pdf
    • https://klairtransport.com/uploads/files/84879628611.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c66d4fcfd19f51fd832f5a1133a5059/70293300534.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5f6c629ea---fovozifisuwubez.pdf
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/9731120560.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49f83de3a7---noniditotalupi.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a8f2dce20---17653434149.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b534687945---tafamej.pdf
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/81145528060b4b3cb46c3b.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609251737161a---26586045198.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c77bda526092975d7c76542fdb8763bb/ladonifobuvav.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d529f8362aad0be5b61d57ff9b5d0a83/84711294343.pdf
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/nopepoxuwosonumekitere.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607644f2c7061---12142934129.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401a7b96094d79522cd3c02255e1b726/daminavodojenefejidufuvu.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c8b106076---lixevikotabadazoge.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1as769uq84ctc1dmtiebd12k8r/73471608617.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608648c7e157d---tevozodeneg.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb3177af1e---mojuxepawawixaf.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb4c.bin
f3bcf7cb1952ab78991f210432f7af161ff87c7d32ff0ddd736a22901f3b0558
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4C 10752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113ea.bin
2f92918897759c5babffa021a5019d04b15efb5851eb5d462711c60af1012097
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EA 18092 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014382.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14382 16792 bytes