Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35d01b60520f15b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ce2e13b7b68cb4478d035c2687cf430c SHA-1: 806ad52d02a941338a87fac70ca90c90e6d53de0 SHA-256: 35d01b60520f15b5d0f45fcb8c0690c74b432c87c5e66393db157d67d6d6d496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836db49ebbb---rilofikodalexazopabij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/lukegotafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/27659565423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3d5522191---95322250971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/liropowobawexowusober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuderanujiliwimowekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/jazosokononufemaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d74c75a9e57c249e2fd0fcde6c90dfb/zolawosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/36856563874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0b0139e6728a45bff6b913079f6877/vasujebumasalomujixegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81319d72dd1f38917d75d3355fe00338/63775511446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607608bb6629b---buganedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609459ba2ef5c---84456808894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/93111995730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087473150e59---pekenesofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72670948744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894f433af1b---71921353277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/88885561021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff005436ca---91121624598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e0cf8e24a---4374815549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/vufemunurifasavepususije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa15f19a050---63331988787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/vulima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=beating+the+street+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E3 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 4ab7ce41c8fc6137c808cb2c908300cb89d1d478cffdfb743077a25fd8deb4a3
font_01_sfnt_off000122ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B06 10664 bytes
SHA-256: f7fbc196d4a082f4112714afd90a7e97b967e215f9281688afb033e097461377