Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 366e70f032d17001…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 4b30ceb2b10a4ad1939bcc4e9d5f8322 SHA-1: 09f33e8ba2e34f0c55b8c3732f498ca9839c9f98 SHA-256: 366e70f032d170017a7e35d3964d827e06eee630454a5407f9c5011ff0c35d0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anestesia+general+pdf+2018 PDF link annotation
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mazozakuxubukidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210516135256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/newijesadajuzalirodibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99125880632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nigulemasizefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210822_054831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20451926093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/14572623912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biserica-izvorul-tamaduirii.ro/files/belepadasiwesotapeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161134789c55dd---9115758432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb60b7a404---wexumevosotoxuzodatijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437c5154f36f3dc11a55accf7f8a8cdc/kasikenaseletibejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/tirezefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a265ee41---13366471521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8o6sqan3vcc43dds1g4evqpa6/togotowedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saporidelletnastore.it/file/70472481573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/wivopejovuwite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81652469246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/rinigutavetivebukinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/43736830873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f12f904214---jomirefikisasomobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161074a618e10c---rudanazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/41335006701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/72110780715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbb8502bc7---gexigigasejuxato.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_off0000d691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD691 11036 bytes
SHA-256: f5029605904652007599ee3eb787506a1e50cada6db9020ed3c7fde3d3156b78
font_01_sfnt_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 18868 bytes
SHA-256: 0b63957fd76defc2f3c2ebd0fddb898206c90fe1778959111e7924366aa61c4c
font_02_sfnt_off000120ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1