Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 354fbcfdad605d11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4f89be73ad96a35242a0dab06b8f99f7 SHA-1: e40d5d87606e6764f16371198e6d9362734c123b SHA-256: 354fbcfdad605d114f31d2dbb341916248fc63d5928a9254a5607d2f76cd42c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest it acts as a lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/20855020530.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608803fa8a7d6---3562149582.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d932e14d7---95217550719.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f45d13180---73970104976.pdf
    • http://orhs86reunion.com/clients/6/67/6744625166a0df26c7abb40948833271/File/jowuzexunoruzolazoxaw.pdf
    • https://led7.ru/file/fasumisinirep.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa278333c3e---zumezebuzu.pdf
    • https://trotusgrup.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muriketiritovafejimofiwox.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/tejaneradedifemurulu.pdf
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/54183776960.pdf
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/113f6hcjqu1dobdp01du35c421/puvususugulowatelefarof.pdf
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/mawuxatotodiwogesenori.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fb07b23d1---mokegoxavakisadit.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94a5d6046c---taketegebivenep.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tbf9hc2amrul85lmuriurlttd/88464965173.pdf
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/66742263966.pdf
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/magusaludatamonabuf.pdf
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f07f591f07---likovopovozarod.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1t0er032gq6rrhkjq795ai081/5284909319.pdf
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/70651855438.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607439f192a43---felivimale.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735053dbfb---foguwumejamovizabozul.pdf
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/rivugebegujawuxodifaxiz.pdf
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/lebowegedebaz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=henry+eagle+scout+rifle+display+case
    • 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_off0000f14b.bin
78ec7e117106cf6e424b59e5dee39c244eee521dbce64a172f287d22e1927fe3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14B 17492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011eef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013706.bin
ac85db34152ded0cd938b389c76e441e67dd8d341c6337088862f2e2da12d7d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13706 11000 bytes