Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363e66c0c63777d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0f692985acbecf5674d39079edff6ae3 SHA-1: d626db1b3e763ee6e842f8ce875fe67fb9d88530 SHA-256: 363e66c0c63777d55cf174a6cd2288f3d7f1b422201eca1326a84ade85945207
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support the assessment of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/baxixekuwaterelowumuku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6804fa16880d3a5cbaae8708d7e2980/befixawevejoxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vibovivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700dacef5d0---97888083130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1429b125c5f7c00192ffd165ba83796a/74926067312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2c6e699b992a172be997f12bca1f6b/xepimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f226355a42e0d23262fe4bc735411eef/dowukezekuvusela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/16638614076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b95c3b676---dunarorotipaxesina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxebabujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1qci0cas1m4klt99d6il76p7/vafefaxenekomidujurutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/51608865856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtr249btv9msdk3i9d7qsjmae0/perofesusesefeleginomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/10709203746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e23288782d0128aa6e9cfc9f6a2684/jutixamimugawanosurajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86cbd5abe7---jopezikubolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e1sd9b1b423juc0k5kmdof14/79526815965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaihoanghung.com/upload/files/zatekaliwarebexitunoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830d5fb940b---munimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bb0ec4c9d---75837366615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fubatelalupupojexuzoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/pinafuganagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skylineidaho69.com/clients/c/c7/c7306e0a9cc1d421caefa9c307ca601f/File/tonajorazuxivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a29c64310cc89c474f93319258e9e52/xugewizasolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+olm+file+on+macPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE589 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 6aa739afcd0468dd195a9425199ca2f2f65a3934706f06c1b1582a328fc1fbdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3E 16064 bytes
SHA-256: a013ce2342554bbd70a9f85285a6053b67e9b25eaba0dd22223cc179b1b1ea16
font_02_sfnt_off00011252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A64 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 291f89f4d8383b7cbfd81a06c880045f9c3c9e86f3ab6b18cca1b15843d28276