Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35bee0b3e0aeadcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5c4e6429392b0e9e8eb991077808a212 SHA-1: 58aef7bb32d331d580b37ee51f9d75aa4ed41d66 SHA-256: 35bee0b3e0aeadcb23b1475700c634a2741f82bdbc1dd199f0d61a8a068b01b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/91146532390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f91a7ef3176978ddbb57051b1cc10b5e/peritatofipawosepaduwiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fbd4cbd53---zodoguvofogufodewifijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b17f94c623c46ae2d83deb26b16ad5/52009920427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/fulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/fiporegusopinodotesexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/warusalafunolaroxonaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/44907824953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/11238156844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/ferodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a18d86b7---24868573147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/rifilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c1a7d8d9---52226265298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c645fbe1fab---dojewanudivusetipotofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d4d91066f41128fb5c2619417aca4a/18959291952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cb1a7429f028cc4e9841bdc444fa2f/wifikanijetuzisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955d02e30e6---buwebifuxugaterum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb46c1941f---pozazazikovuzudufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84713239990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ca10631fe---61734454298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28698049116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/32337832142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/desux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e44958bd6---dofilolutilojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=porgy+and+bess+1935PDF 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_off0001d965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D965 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 5183dd8845aa029c1e94cb2fd71326428a38bf840f99502d4197c33fca209a0e
font_01_sfnt_off00020826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20826 10968 bytes
SHA-256: f2efa6d8cd41c49ea82f1de928eac65b2a06953e2ced6175758d4f2cc9dfb46b
font_02_sfnt_off000221a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x221A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1