Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35aad6fa20094b32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

167.7 KB Created: 2021-06-20 16:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 095cef3bc1bdc0fb56a028a3ec712341 SHA-1: 7e1866c8fc92d9e9a3113c2fd9c76c48cca741cb SHA-256: 35aad6fa20094b3222db20bfa116379db324d5c27af16dbdddc370662781def3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to movie streaming, aiming to trick users into clicking on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1db154446---gasakuxivoxotezufinido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cc6033e9e---kesajipitapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861628ac3d8---25350893350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/6467212686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trttch1pkpjnj8jvvk5m9qh4p6/zezenerutebirusenajavugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404b3cf20eef479fddaa4bd0ea8e4800/98898191593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/tuwiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/46635382572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a445f135c58---88153151887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387469758695131f8b40bdfef2997c4e/31413554328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab21fbc0560b5bcc78c90c284234aeb4/giravoguwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb4a81840c---pupuwafija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/13577580788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/77528285994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=avengers+infinity+war+stream+englishPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00023aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23AAF 5424 bytes
SHA-256: ee53022e1d3f0a68a1945049326927e04f48823c136fe3cdc82e28b3b494c889
font_01_sfnt_off00024d19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24D19 14764 bytes
SHA-256: 42544e6058df6211e83d7d0220d9cbfa6acef7bab71addc9a223d1abacd9379f
font_02_sfnt_off00027b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27B9D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3