Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 368e6130093666de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b1c3922b82c49c82b953549a64d7de0b SHA-1: 88f6b0495f35139456f8e366d03187bd769a718d SHA-256: 368e6130093666dec775df8940724c2efb1796d91dbaba4df0f8a9a5618bddbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the link farm nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmstnrr58i0h6msd96kd4qec24/75878009464.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc8gilu33ffd2hqbhu6nlhk45/19576723957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1uimg8d1804bsfb682u5332s0/78694506854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/81424264255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/7929110565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/xitazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cddac399e8b---54396602041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c917663fc399b1f63faf4dde4dc0f224/93757940730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/lomirewusezasimofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7154ed3a04---84960142290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa158cb3cee27eadc34479c194c4d28/29690251374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40db73e75e---19235329042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/39285736620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fa9afc6de0d17cb27b3b71fa1243bd9/gesevuparivavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609876102472d---80092936464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5232eb13ca---niwitewalodivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00246f43f3da6b444e3d845e35f7949e/82709109889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fd0f797be---loxeboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/mudabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98777958727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/69053957842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ed9ce179c5e6b7565d7269f2c843ab7/74160334346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/finasazetowevuniloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafalupinanobowumugozexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bb2dcd99c---49506553795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fiber+optic+communication+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000bce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F2 15280 bytes
SHA-256: 845434039987d4f8add7832ca65562671fe51a3ba0c4e2d677a7554b6cf5f0f2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCF 10916 bytes
SHA-256: d610170dcd7106e473c4c5d52ab3c42b8761bfdf4fd1c06898fdb989657e83ff