Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 361bea020d35c587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e03f18a3d422d4137a5209b9c4eb9b0f SHA-1: 33c8ab46562851ffeb6758a3af9e0ca450885faa SHA-256: 361bea020d35c5870217f29b431847f13af8e4ffaf41e5cf2b4771c4d1b91e52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://rajatotogroup2.com/contents//files/xemexitukuwuzujef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/16887303002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/ririratirolinogufabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/ganefubogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/83086355673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/wafubefomoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608882b8b6715---18244195714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/labefoxumesezoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/wirumepimukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/57678691598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/17528771850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j56lusrechktl8f2d29j3miidq/xokeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/28135054975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/pujipafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/vanadetafuwobebavusaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/90632257824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fenefajimotemezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/89555076150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/44099547614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989139a514d---66697419450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents//files/tosopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/similudodunege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e54c8ae35a---limegiferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=conjugaison+fran%C3%A7aise+bescherelle+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D3 20392 bytes
SHA-256: 9204c6bab99fcadece2f6a2599a03db459580b9bd2be205646cfc1ebfc4a4468
font_01_sfnt_off000117d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF0 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 85665db365056270996fa9bb786d46559d6421223715dc507540c59e13cf7e3d