Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35f73b90f06dbe6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: adf5f49ca1cbe7f473601cc376611795 SHA-1: e4d89260b52211c403c65f7f2761f469b826649a SHA-256: 35f73b90f06dbe6a4aeb1696f22f8a0a35a36a74f7027492ad8668052e264532
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its use in distributing malicious content or leading users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/wevoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/69710813774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/wezosabuzagomixevaxevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buydecor.ru/uploads/files/10788821965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57753648937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/27737318348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/25978545634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/94953248580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901051624873775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613379ba89abb---kofexukeguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e607a7dee4---61012620325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/powifadanobuxupopisutumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/sifugovozibeliwibevavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/17176786139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/xidiravasilalobigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26583513793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/64233764318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613158edd3cf1---ronidasewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78372583018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_9101A90199E370CB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaselolozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631239210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/19717019527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613386e79646f---54871043435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malobobezogiwepazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/gawubomopunamakugutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/votuwibagigunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05t24ej9k8hguucdv1ov5uf315/94247545380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=things+we+can+do+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f5b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B9 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 2fe366cd9ff69084ce91275eb2dd3c537ce3fdbc65da939b50103ba77ea4c4ad
font_01_sfnt_off000122fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122FD 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 1de4bd6e251cb5a6d321f17d00e39a52191c08ef2a1a4ab80fbc423eba4e19c1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1