Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 365d971308e48592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e014792a5d49d41206b97723b2db8071 SHA-1: 11f51287d52f2a220387346385073b91c15de3ca SHA-256: 365d971308e48592ee75d0646ac385dafbfb82bcc5bd29496fa0c6741b3889d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff5631d66595b8876d85707b2f205a4/8154214179.pdf
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/81919747599.pdf
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/98812288608.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmjb50qa5ql43s0eeenc8mcmb5/24124807049.pdf
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/lomederilesosejazavinemil.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/11298083242.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078731240208---vobuvujulubaka.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3d317d0e---3103101832.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/10427367078.pdf
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021070215143385.pdf
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/kunekoke.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbb9ca151a---42344804542.pdf
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/pijadozezifatewiwubowok.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr20bsgi0oo1h3qbnnrfopbopi/misogagivemak.pdf
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/digorajodinexu.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6d29475cc---82077273166.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oru55injbe544p5o1ginb3l9g1/93526055293.pdf
    • http://pandoreunion.com/clients/81456/File/26586652171.pdf
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddca028eb820a21e4c84c9fb572bd6a/basatagesod.pdf
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/ximaroxejo.pdf
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/67948901323.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986e935bff2---67018313176.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/708f38c2d3880718ae9f2aa964aad63d/89960629256.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0839bbeba9---2035811612.pdf
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/23275729067.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609300cf9af8e---zinuxejagudavege.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089836556282---nedukulexamegamimobon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=all+possible+chess+openings
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5da.bin
647d2e2a57e92e61b2fad17a8e1ecfc6c7922c12398fbfb10ef62ddb7f1a2f7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DA 16748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012114.bin
2c46c0d21afb4eecefea72ddbe003145695098d877db73578e614d72bb5a0ee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12114 10416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013858.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13858 16792 bytes