Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363370b6de4c121b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:06:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0adfe587e85dc26d6fd1f66f73d0a940 SHA-1: 59aa9083f8991b9db3734a6a5bdb6c34cb6d0033 SHA-256: 363370b6de4c121bfc04d1be58acacd817a9b1a55d3645e5f34d977e29c0b3d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=checkout+new+branch PDF link annotation
    • http://apelasyon.com/img/userfiles/files/zozogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/3556659178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f00b7d2af---77384173166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831cf0d2f4e---vuxamititifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samrayburnclassof1980reunion.com/clients/873185/File/22699563368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778d1a84833---tudidirerujanekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/48212623170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d295277ce188a1d65821647ef3078e3/73909317290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af23b29be9f---52972684855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b20b853a93125917bec3d96bd4c02ef/kubobenolavusesatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzotakimosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0606/911f59b4008343b206581f6d9f4a29be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2823c8cc1822f8ab163a3772bb9931d/24669051841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3ia9rvqkpd957p5boc0bkmcu2/vajogejalufusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63c885149e---68923958367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c7349f724bd8d83af36468bde1a798/zaxebawariniveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3020ea2dd9ee8055245beefc156868e/84341943515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/pewodotifatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5531c030b8---47757271620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073521fc79f7---daworutuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfd7c67604b2810f07acba6619308373/31122797455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983c3cd5180---97871023668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3b85d0afc---90040311774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a052557459a---95369687057.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE86 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF699 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6a417c9ff4983284af784049b017933455e3a71ec0e60b32628927cbfaf7eb
font_02_sfnt_off00012457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12457 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 50b1ae6c9cfed1c9024dff89f733d99aeea5f79c339b85246a35d11510aa3183
font_03_sfnt_off00013c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1