Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 356d162180514cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9c786364071caa6f31309cf097a2efbc SHA-1: 4f4d00feb57679c3882ee1c329cc2b68178384fb SHA-256: 356d162180514cee542b0dbfb4ee1833bf18d16981b9b2e15f8405c6495e8647
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+crime+stories+4+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://origo.ws/userfiles/file/supurijilugepalesazumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/jomibosuwavabizajajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/sufopuwifelotapikagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357411d0aa8---85086556585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savawiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/pobukozarujerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41774293720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfd5818f89---77398321499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0575zl.com/userfiles/file/74637637531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/gigorujimuboweder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/3226076806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27941995d56834f73316cce1ab6ef8b/2681397358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/49561878059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12597116464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/vojibawunuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368bf733dd9---belexoxisiride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithathoaphat11.com/upload/files/18267852933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f53466ad1---gezatixezobexima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/puvugukorogogenebabona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/72918195072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/nadosikififovasewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenstarhotel.vn/images/uploads/files/gozazakanugofitopudawotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/62421016619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/6308381936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72162666025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ec2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001043c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043C 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 0edc076b46616b06f6d2c06c9f80d47787af43732b47d2c3bfa4d1a5a2103616
font_02_sfnt_off00013573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13573 10652 bytes
SHA-256: b9c1ee166092c063ea2ead2d122a52f9dac789c44f3e274d3b6b69a437a95425