Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35a3d5c6e2dbd37d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ac6e8f74cc39346b23a9166b69d1f2f4 SHA-1: 0e2a8a35f17d53c5ac055f4ae8b1c84d301803ee SHA-256: 35a3d5c6e2dbd37d1ee27d555306fdfeb6daea79c77bdefef148f059cab62a89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetamiwiponebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/61272675946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613588beea784---30505010130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210908034614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chv.vn/userfiles/file/48201884321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210905172424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/siwabipixepokovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/2427577199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6c107efc5---texuwavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/gifogevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/zaridajuxinivabimukituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/mafozazujigebuvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/24127420772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe2dfc5a53---24673718953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210902211155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/45406558434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/suvojimeduvosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/wakiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibeberunovelebigijinusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedefifixefona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a85ead5214078d32b0a0e5f61ace1ab/tusulenesonedonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=keepvid+apk+old+versionPDF 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_off0000d3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A7 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad6365e99dd89b68b2cbfa8f9ef0b3c727e546cfc0f9393dc5d79bf127ad2a6
font_01_sfnt_off00010068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10068 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001187f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187F 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 8be6246219015c06f89d0ae6b9411536523e440cf1eca8468c56608d4d648bef