Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 355119091b96feb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f3743c5886b646fdb09a996bb0c67c79 SHA-1: 701fa0f1364b5160c8780ac43ae11eeb5bb4a8ef SHA-256: 355119091b96feb72822824cec1280b0e6c842172ffdcf638e4a934f76c81b06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or directing users to malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the nature of the links and the ClamAV detection indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly involving exploitation or redirection to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/98120875041.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f98648c817---notigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gepabcg89esn15eq0btdk58cn/37656882342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e98e05280---67734228001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/zuzemomajebasuwosevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aacada7e3d56042eb900154eb7006aff/67051814128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/43120232399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463694c173c1a5d593dccca277ed19d1/fuvixobefuwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/ximorifasuribujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46793721972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/85458461872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/norudegabusotitovopuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0af6e4e38---96324540824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/zinilojitobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613257d261beb---juxaruner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiyuchangdi.com/upload_files/files/20210809_072214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e452efa1f1b---98227474919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/xukakidimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d50fcb5c51881ce10bda238112b9d63/22518815095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080f200a73eeba73aae6f8c1e37084d5/lexowidukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/vujesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenberetrotcmedals.org/clients/e/ee/eef2f5edcbf7b69ea683240098563b39/File/95577017697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a19f5c5c1---jasiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=endemia+epidemia+y+pandemia+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F3 20160 bytes
SHA-256: fdd70f2aa1c1de253c26744c71e0ad2cccd46aab1d0e9257ccf7f7a5d0472a49
font_01_sfnt_off00011591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11591 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 308db4d02ea08f385d3cda7128bf402d17e96e75e309d8109fd39e2770bfc5cb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1