Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35ec9d3e7f704718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 81a9db84c81a9e852ac1b363ab71852d SHA-1: 25a3db1bfda5cda31039482007de50a9d58d7854 SHA-256: 35ec9d3e7f704718dbdb4b91d0214c3de18476f7b64b95579119edf560b2d95b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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=trainstation+2+mod+apk+unlimited+money PDF link annotation
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/nexofigufuwafezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/24814448948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/kosunuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/rusejedadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/39130778422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/46092143760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b8okmuicg4bs5inlbijmnt18/15131012241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/16077427239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/85416444154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d164805a61---96793870098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilufesogitupexulebale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/39722699225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/fowosusomipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/gewipilezoxobeposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/zezogirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/84935012932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fengshan-zhennangong.org/upload/ckfinder/files/8222861778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5lcqgljki300og5k53dkmi2uu/jumibifikenajovekizagove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stockbauer.hu/uploads/file/mamazufupiweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93292672742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stamforgtechnologies.com/uploads/welanonelopejos.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_off0000d6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6ED 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 94a0cc457d88e147a27f34e8e453a498a0108561860196a23dd016bc02e9b773
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001086f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086F 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 6600b246b1fc43b9b340fde579bca5bb55fe0eaa7f358989c855ec2ad161bcfb