Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35eae1ae65b1ce7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-03 20:34:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d71124e1cdffb7a5675ceef60cc9841f SHA-1: ab07f3e910352366d1d6b98ed69b322f1bc2cbe3 SHA-256: 35eae1ae65b1ce7c1a95fcf506edd0aeb271eeafe97276327adafd4e9015b00d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests a common tactic of encrypting payloads to bypass gateway scanning, though no explicit password instructions were found in the document body.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://longhoang.vn/upload/files/44108674005.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8881070d4b3a17d776387bcc95ab3e95/73333083475.pdf
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bea5ef11fa---jafadezonoluju.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a045e5c4e94---10853917167.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd48bd33278---bizodadawutirepo.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmj92r8umup8gcv25pnatg9v5u/85637233656.pdf
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608278c2928ce---98222233983.pdf
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/zenunapi.pdf
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/72767672113.pdf
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fae4194e5---89279816357.pdf
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759bfdda2c6---milixowidipivun.pdf
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d543bf165d3deebd52a7a02abe1f496f/99066647049.pdf
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/723aae778ac409adce34be7d67702a35/xedajubupiwe.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080742543c8e---jetivijejogonan.pdf
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/denarido.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071017ea486a---manovafowimomanelawaza.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b1175894a---44785417895.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba30114af89---mexuwosunizakop.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8214a6c18a9e31ef7b8ac71311da19/58254160673.pdf
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3763f3039b6436dfaf7a984060e75b60/86966952775.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d6ac0e320---13225030903.pdf
    • http://krossinkeuka.org/clients/c/c6/c64aa726effa6776341672ea469011e7/File/nojewaxevirufizir.pdf
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/41132119091.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d68610b8a---17743321491.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940aeb683ed---benopononone.pdf
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c258c6983f478f9d125c0bc1b232dac4/vufeso.pdf
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/teperobuparijubafuzovi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+imagen+en+caricatura+online
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fcc1.bin
cef40ab0b45b379bab37d7f2293216b868109b09f44dab2b0e3076bfd2ecdf26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC1 18268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b77.bin
d32d36898a7b79b6f81f4b4687d849cae16219df80fa0eb5ea512381e4bce0cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B77 10604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000143bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143BC 16792 bytes