Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35b730128232e604…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 18:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 85099943f5320bb771ca64108eee185d SHA-1: 4c93fe39a44b8a412c59c08a5d0d6ec9eaa17117 SHA-256: 35b730128232e604ac977864fa214845240ad55d9ec7b50bd869001d31103f38
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq364rbl818t9r10ttujdscuun/53365714475.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b362146a105---tenupoduvaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/70350162596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb10337947---zumogejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b821d5e65e0dbb6b2916283af136d9/noxelikogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c13fc52a2467ebbf5a1a04b98e77836/86838475771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fe1eb57be---xemimazezodozumubosisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/95083069218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/sazugigutemikome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d9beae55cdd2c281fe61ad2354f127e/25344487787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608066fc304b6---zofidumesefawekipowizezo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3ade9331a5134d916719f31edba218/mimemoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853c8735df0---74835225839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ed8733b5a2e11ca0af32901972cd56/gonolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bafe51c50f47bc17cb52ac665ce91d1d/53104129371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01dc29bc65---falibebobabujororix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9484989693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p198nv5ro5lo05qdi2sc32v0p/75741916119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/64336156547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjacksonfamilyreunion.com/clients/e/e2/e2167ce47089e9b789d53270b7cccc99/File/sojageleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9243290fdcd48a8f8b89457c4d48803d/60667842358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae981335e06ae3fb48504379af15ea7/jubiteroxizebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/30241499302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=most+famous+lil+wayne+songsPDF 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_off0000fbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD7 18576 bytes
SHA-256: 5d671249d0e24a41f3e7c030145ed8d6e14ecc472273e742121bc323ea2f5aad
font_01_sfnt_off00012ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA2 10748 bytes
SHA-256: c3db841ac6ce5fde5b26d14de011d175c99211fdc030a5b0abbcb159d53e795c
font_02_sfnt_off0001457a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1457A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1