Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35fb95b6ff8e4489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a87bbd424f477f72f52278c428f15e52 SHA-1: e60cd0ba348be1721ba0f8c670c7f6e9edd3d7cd SHA-256: 35fb95b6ff8e44894e80a9659c803df08d22d1c990ea58adfff245b0ac7f91e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is being served through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=relation+between+frequency+velocity+and+wavenumber PDF link annotation
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47243181687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/18313275401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63vmjt2d8qnvjj57r6l6hq029d/kagawitaruvakojiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b0a18fa3b---magutikowelagujaloxopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u94dem7rkou45dfe1moep98od/96237019648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ff79f0840---18529999593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073154af26be---waxifaponegotalunukijoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/musulazewilokudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/58254614454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca357b41c5---53805037062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607821b8c6214---11726872379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/zeguwegosufubumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e73871682a---wukefojemifabefipimuwipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607109e1a3a6e---jekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec0d9ab302---bojenekinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbce5b5738c4150f82160bc26a9ed572/54274208378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8o1mmbbf7h6ulfaamt1hkonq30/piturupivadurubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d2d2e1539ff3284920b5beb15742c2/kamolumikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/kelupesepiperudiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6icde224iu43malslk0b2elfp1/16203141680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608391406b9ca---28645405435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/18758878524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f51678088b---74428781456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/fidemabisedurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b0ef2f68---23211421117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkdlnaugto0nrjt0st2it3dbdd/rariwetepuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubuvidovumozusakikanaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/fitejuxasixemusilijep.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_off0000eb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4B 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 4781f64ce3570521a30bda8fac2aac70cf0b9f4b39fbf116eb2844f34093fa48
font_01_sfnt_off00011a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2E 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 3b13ef352e4d2dbd0961f025744ff7bc7d6f0b209111b683b7d8eb282c526336
font_02_sfnt_off00013425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13425 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1