Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363591eed2afa947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bb16b8091707f82dac61fb2bb0707e36 SHA-1: 3282ff8e58b36362cc44a28a8c7acabe996aa893 SHA-256: 363591eed2afa947b8ab76d8dea730891807b5c7e03377e9946841527aac74e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing sites, indicating a multi-stage attack. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=hans+hermann+hoppe+democracy+the+god+that+failed+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a139e7d546b---gekewenegixuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14434369624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5b1bc45aff029038a5d5acf7d8902f/geterizeragojunageriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/wibuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ef74915117eee41cf8cd14b7564877/kufinawimiwowure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f15b490c007---vifiwumorazofarowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51051043546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609790b76dd2f---netukiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719a09eb376---jurimodimuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/pazapipezibulomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89081cdd4eab4e4cbe10caa319e2680e/32048888082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/positoxudatiruwawoxezenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/30413449214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/renagazaduveniwapatinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telektrans.hu/editor_up/11406918335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/48138588526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be696bd2f8b---laxopuwopijofijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/favagajesovojitiwutiwidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8dad11e4b---luvezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54516628673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/vumajilaxakuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/vazebemuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/69566491190.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_off00014492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14492 11172 bytes
SHA-256: fea9ad467d63bf7b9156020244b693b79271337f9fa2478298d90676ac73815c
font_01_sfnt_off00015e3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E3D 22868 bytes
SHA-256: 0241b747b95d69042e5367b49d24629dec11baffd96ea404c10dd29de07f8eab
font_02_sfnt_off000197dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x197DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1