Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 357f8ce86062c26b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3d04c43daabd774c5e0ace8bdb7be03e SHA-1: e72d2f2456c0980b2eae3984a319e505f6024c75 SHA-256: 357f8ce86062c26bb5feb4ca6b985c42671dd86b849b3d1429deecfb7078432d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or SEO manipulation attack.

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://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/35889426981.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210903134347400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/komajuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-stroi76.ru/userfiles/file/wakexuzekezawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/37375794129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/49222113567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16oufhr5sqbj8v04vso0cig1c2/36908549750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/39312597734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39157385479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/83829908914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae50522a27b---91404581482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/76745679434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052115535367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13615635349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/39039886514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e2faef279---zirebugukibararid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb16d0b486---ponifilonesidotonaxason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8a624db90---mapizusupuwegakiromuxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d385915f85b47c7de448978668ecf88e/fujisugedesejevititu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/32699247145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/13316164832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf6bccfb06---gexajimavomazajawetorasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2354d4ec96ada84edbaeaa3d3691833/52939296815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/84287618102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/vimibamorisolamudizeguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=buku+kumpulan+khutbah+jumat+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_off0000bae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAE9 19360 bytes
SHA-256: db42941d404895fc44f09d754d0a93a6896809f879e2caf096cfc9d4b95d74b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 50c1fedc16ea80259b6f6fc27c15c610035eb44f85c9d10cdb8f956d88101e3f
font_02_sfnt_off0001059a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1