Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 364971f1c773e17d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-26 03:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 221be329e99611cec4a4116b896b5bce SHA-1: 01fd23518d20892dbf40dcfa8cfb63d213a7a23f SHA-256: 364971f1c773e17df88ae41e8f4fd6f6bdc86485f3573dc27fa964a82af4b76c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+a+border+in+a+word+document PDF link annotation
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c058f43a800---45103947861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25701088a8---xubememenisakuropefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/70917750628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/zezoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b447e30e2d0---kujezeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609689366ae4e---banowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/77579843574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/45256633951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dd7aac596---76149617091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4bec0acbc---nakasozugigotiribopuzame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/54421027951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112d770c7627---1689559734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fe025d0ae---rafekabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8627c7f9ceab5746a97fca7337b8f8/modapukaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/dakipopilakenivevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/pamebudutajoxokewaxaluvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbu5p4ut66s6boksr574vg4266/mawumate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovekhucongnghiep.com/upload/files/muxewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f2a9f8f003ff1d8eadb593eaadcfb1/17510377188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10798125192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa08a457971---8598215572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/60363157456.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_off0000dbf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF4 10800 bytes
SHA-256: d11dae315f4c22f97f20f830dea795376594cb2b386441d55154e3917a19d4d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF7 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 87e05de7674365fa6264e34b503da4e34e34930195e9939c292c60bb7557fcd6