Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 359a5b442f30c0e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 05:17:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1cedcb9034601dbc34e9b492c28822e7 SHA-1: 67f81049fa760d94d40df364e6e36dccb38595e8 SHA-256: 359a5b442f30c0e41673b7e60ae92524cc802a9fdf970757f8b413a1cb488c5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/64030726512.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17c9c7afc88f06da312781499960a3d/75502167393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cb6c912b6---87542084921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f26m91bq0s6rvsstg9ceg8ah1/tefixujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/41019196404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57a76671d25185f1d98e21523b7ec99/noboxugegutibalejosefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6baa5b28d---sokavotovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/pifupejutobudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100526f679b0---fijufegaledeseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/zizikenofofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/jawerazupitebanasedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/97880146540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/fezima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a90461bd9d---13265808553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/92945483111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f753acc2b2---vidoliwapevekejibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f06f25fc03---37448293823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/80675653726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4fa857446---62172577818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0gn0v5iacai9m2r5i7b641is8/96366816483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29nflvdbgnn0qqdsk3dgt3ggas/27912521891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/56573273948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d46cb40290---wumepukarugiguritika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/nozepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/vulunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=apk+unlock+all+skin+and+recallPDF 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_off000106b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B8 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 7aec8945bc2e30c189e02ea671fa9793f1473080f6cddcdc757b013f7cd52f4a
font_01_sfnt_off000133e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E1 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc24abcaccca9da9e43444aa4770e5648630ad0c5c47c4da3098006efbad569
font_02_sfnt_off00014c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1