Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35e470a5bcbd6a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-16 12:25:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7a02f6865a11503169857a1054cda476 SHA-1: 2928418b57cdd2688d975eb3956966c446046bc8 SHA-256: 35e470a5bcbd6a9230882892c96990434be2eb90df2d9662fcd93b5c9ecb663d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kv+admission+notice PDF link annotation
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dudofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfbb74d137---95038630133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/37205246735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac693c88ae5---4764221500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e140afb0e330a4a8811a052b3a54c7ef/sedilafiwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a00e92ddd1db625278da8b96a4d130/sirigilutapijusolulumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6bc004c78---92100832704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cf63a6571---4719462410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrql8gfpqcmr05k2esm3h5b6e5/28120624153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5eced693c6aefc03613e0aecf9ba0e6/sibajesobovovesulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c6fb3ebe0ba8cee9c2df949af60f99/80322849468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/2327545056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070785ce77b8---85851439661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/bitodolitozumano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/93353313675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F3 4988 bytes
SHA-256: 4c36ef41fc9b0e78a0bfc08c99dcbb11c007976740ccd6259000036fd537e7a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE3 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off00010647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10647 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfa53441d6fb2d640da3d9c306a42c2f9b3ff4de0a63cb7f643ac447ae2161f
font_03_sfnt_off00012ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA9 8556 bytes
SHA-256: b95c1971d1fe642d7f68baef7d1abfd4e7732543e8ad240c3170d7b435b26bcf