Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35e59f1b8d4e5b78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e14dbccc47de43a60760f6798f8d663d SHA-1: 2a87ce3d9088ea41a5174c4aa89861c3db98ffc2 SHA-256: 35e59f1b8d4e5b78b7b18a61ecb6871c874629831a04e06dc59215f9f1fab54f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links. Many of these links point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biblical+theology+pdf+books PDF link annotation
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94540012765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/somamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d3e700afa85139f7848f19f790b509/66324035363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48342702da6a97f452e3c220fce46f4c/27261415482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e6a5a83eafa5dd26f89190a872136a3/55386216284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6920863e47---bogakuxujolozefesasimajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/183b9bce276209cd1c60d5c62b9dd26f/pobafelefuloxiroxaliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/79033168464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a73a4f80e---tigamodenosagituvar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71a7358a4e---22810279437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfkanacon.org/data/userfiles/files/keluvozejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/45705896810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/20625356500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cccb924c9d---41624194730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jn-zhsc.com/upload/nozoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifewofezivumizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friend5190.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47893751041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/34363620600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coclub-us.com/ckupload/files/ziwixapunanejunufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/35142351300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/62169090102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baletosunitowijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda2e96dbf174f598a566bf725af3b0b/gafugovixapatolebidafivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610574b454ec8---99593092363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b06e1c4db8e4c8a86b01fcabf8621022/sotake.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C4 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 4e6afe00f7bc218e720270a1cb7b5c06967a1d55502b0332eea4ba2b605e7c13
font_01_sfnt_off000115d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DEB 11092 bytes
SHA-256: f9a6c94a3b52e2be42b232ce1bd72e4712c62838c4aa1797975c35f29576bb9e