Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35abb9b216f193ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 09:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 735563d3f0449595cb8b756c3caf81e1 SHA-1: 5b657d32ac130011618d60f4a37aa58441a3b19b SHA-256: 35abb9b216f193ba84862b6ac97f056e3c9cd1a69b6892d37418cdc09f18262d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+area+y+perimetro+de+figuras+geometricas+resueltos+en+word PDF link annotation
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/86662739087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80610218669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cdlnpu6cb3utibbg85c0nvrq5/kulekegepilavenoxuwuzomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/60608953113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886f4055ede---93671819030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/11904248902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d706d6cdb1be9b62121c07dd8aa0eb5c/zuvipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a9c1f7bdb66f5c87179dd07880b2ea/80563984336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9d49b04dc47da86ef3435f46c150d9/38718912859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607c1e726a17b---wivedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489305116897f61a1faf0d181324c167/74983589930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/jewuduteter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8494e843853855de4e477d971fa3975/bofesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ec268414c5a93a01d0f210f5658b4a/pewuxaxizadobovumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77f81577d3---pesevazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c10008eb6---purenakene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr68e2a7k84c4hc3l6do4hm2o7/39192560078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e78b4737c8f21ea2996fc7869b375cb4/zajabenebebemoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21ebd4fd06---maseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/lerepiwafijixilezofomovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/gubuxokelosavitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/47418973615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa3b297de78---62924140655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6249839b71ed31ccee3812fd0303934b/35747337570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportgalaktik.sk/userfiles/file/vajogatabarapefafojivisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001198a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001319c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1319C 19256 bytes
SHA-256: a097d69dae6666ef21bbf8f86beb6ea499a90d745873796935a38c1e64cbbaeb
font_02_sfnt_off000162aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162AA 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 4290fc697d2806325494a7808f769c65fb60dab381262b809d3c1a3cf480e53b