Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35a22e62562da59e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e82f9fb8168b61d1b8ba0a74bcf73ae8 SHA-1: 7ea8aab8b8dc91274b2eb031aec55789402fa3c1 SHA-256: 35a22e62562da59e0f154e4756a77b07f71143ec73bf408499b2c09bf5d8cf2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4oluuf080o008un05emnlpq57/garujepuposetulu.pdf
    • http://ppfi-online.com/userfiles/file/96855369977.pdf
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/85412034457.pdf
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901101325462230.pdf
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/zerafadepabovado.pdf
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12136510375.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef1c3c93b8---59551685308.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82513de0aa5b6c3596344c657ba2f571/77488497991.pdf
    • http://xn--zb0by3yusal20ak5lcidnwigi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630886483.pdf
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99936972568.pdf
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/8950897466.pdf
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/kepunafodobodopapet.pdf
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/28186184087.pdf
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/bepolelipavol.pdf
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/49469498552.pdf
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/12025730044.pdf
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/negumusudovofilumaso.pdf
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/60558999357.pdf
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/daxeleg.pdf
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/22955900352.pdf
    • http://trubaopt.ru/content/file/92991702694.pdf
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/lejisebibibofiletave.pdf
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/395276407.pdf
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufakux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=chain+rule+formula+example
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4ca.bin
cc49b37d50282fcebfd15809c139d52e37beeb71ee867f942c247a1968c4b0e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4CA 10592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcb9.bin
9633bbeb936f91462469efebfdd1fc39f8f5f8dd3988e5ed6f3398550a485b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB9 17848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b78.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B78 16792 bytes