Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 367bfdd2895256b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:45:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8b74893d3e47dff871a7d713c1269631 SHA-1: 70cd29ae3bd71d8080cadf2bf6a3ede03071acd3 SHA-256: 367bfdd2895256b6ab53c0f62454b92e36b71c9b4cb2f22f24e9bb50d6d76767
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hump7kvr407ni7364alnaanus7/kexakab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/jevokivolokozuvugopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/49320027132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1610587112609adcc3ad59d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255f0155aa---dewolutusuwiwowizabove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920e3d339cc---vuxuwixufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1vausbmeelph7fgt6qd98loo4/zasixosamevodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/85609201578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/43922036162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210510194931553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1d83acb63---mejegilinuvudimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fa38b83af---36706509117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0qq0ql5oio1ti38qsi64vt914/janoselusutijezimusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c1f0c68c---16314632571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/76069825408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c32495160a---75577877012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4adan3tnhj8b404cfvj7rs68be/94908720849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhogn7k0fm1kll5rmqhpjr3h2h/xalikoturuzaveduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61b7c7ecc7---lebokutifadeliwawedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bb7da332e---vonexofifoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54900de463b5b85bd395eb7c9b8a5d7b/74233734922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733536914b6---21314884939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=causes+of+tics+in+adultsPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD431 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 538991b7dd9da6800601af10fea3f89ff55e0cad702e48a483f36ad187be9be0
font_01_sfnt_off000100d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D1 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 3e853856fd7db4721107f91926adcd2ed291b5940d207dc1684581acc40eed2d
font_02_sfnt_off000118d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1