Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35d914f05d4568aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 18:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3f825efde954902a49880cd01aa312fd SHA-1: 2a64c17d6d8c9533d711573c8479fe4100c135a1 SHA-256: 35d914f05d4568aaabe013c9380c11078f03641883d2bf7bd78f52ade91329dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external websites. Several of these links point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e3845c2db11312fe917589bc03c1ea/31689348290.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e0e0cec90---bovusowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfo7oiruk5cpqcekvr42jtubfj/xapupopabavirodowiteronex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanggroup.com/webroot/img/files/bozukewesigudisosexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/55110895177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/9346760334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i3lb6277umt5nouommhi0oqvk/kerixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fad1026469d---21924123720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c296f8e8ef6---16066340050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/fosozunolidiwobegabubojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/21312746312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d721a1365---derufodexuzivipanosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16210561584789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/lamelagugimive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3bad10b13a252209a18d888efe67f0/30712100075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/35299528393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc271e510d1014ffc972b5f557dd2b6/karemume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/2700501166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafurikelojemejejuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39670e6dbd822282e0b8a896bc01718f/86997559524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/pivonano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aczelzalog.hu/tmp/57512831149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/24896956924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+find+a+notary+publicPDF 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_off0000e33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33A 10744 bytes
SHA-256: b4e4217f3151bcaf0ae67e8b59db73d90b8864efc4429285381de202c7d028d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E5 17756 bytes
SHA-256: a57a31cf40644a5c3056426b5d7a45a5f8c18dde6d0ea34e718eeb377a06f573