Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 354ff69529fb636d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:17:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f884f4f016defa38f5b814bbf7e6d29c SHA-1: 4b9e9925905e593f42e1293d887053c2837306b8 SHA-256: 354ff69529fb636d0b688767026ec1903ff6152f92ff4f32a1257eaa536ec2da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

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 http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210910005223468.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasosuvexopiboxijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106a0aca30f29dd3bf6b5ee2fc6a4570/gatafejajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c945d9cbdcaff08f1cace3d359921a55/zatipikevidakojovufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91427299817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa6aachkjln0qra.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48060905841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/62300058294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/kififusagoromazekirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26161028493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/netizabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikodekepojivepoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9275522-travel.com/userfiles/file/wetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///gasilixujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/nagaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/57099381905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/18021572039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415bf3cad59---kenizurotorepase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/vopabalaxetirupuwaxaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0f0fcfba5---56996077752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/48569661555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369ffc36760---2014599060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/84604502036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d8e4c44d1---94607374349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/kaxezarafexanerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=qt+android+openglPDF 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_off0000e3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CB 19196 bytes
SHA-256: f0f6b4521cc24701257bfae63b566a60402a5788de72a7ab50529d336460b9dd
font_01_sfnt_off000116c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDC 10460 bytes
SHA-256: d1ffee1d51981e9f03934e2fd167a346919ec8fb7d61c763ac5c13afb7581ded