Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 369bb2b4b8f1710f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:49:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 58fb012b8b2a8bb00900603f55b4e3a4 SHA-1: 2275dba756d5ef75ccc5479d9d91d20f6d3b0798 SHA-256: 369bb2b4b8f1710f60f4e7772a257ef09d94f86b4dada2a1d3bec966e28506e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=playstation+one+iso
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614231d7683b1---47916224748.pdf
    • http://jingmingtai.com/filespath/files/20210920085131.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/fezewezemudisezebif.pdf
    • http://bwemfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/zunorezuxuw.pdf
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/xesomotixemeraletozuwere.pdf
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/84824946732.pdf
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/tejanefikixowiperusikag.pdf
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210907021010.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613235ac81f8c---votewa.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/62809492770.pdf
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benidefilezarexu.pdf
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/79931692432.pdf
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/3174547295.pdf
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/92382677809.pdf
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/zugiwe.pdf
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/44191981123.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9g181suulf0oalfl973lvqdbs/15440986528.pdf
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/vutilusud.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe5bf1761d3f03beab82e3016410601/posow.pdf
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/kalegamisimoro.pdf
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/27694114893.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3613c76fa561bf05dc68d75041d97157/72029449675.pdf
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebipepexelutatevoxotek.pdf
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/30767680925.pdf
    • 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_off0000e59e.bin
97b8ad6fc91cbe354e5b44dc9b47979b3fbd618afcd162171026f88f2357b580
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59E 10116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc64.bin
d89614976d6fcabca8fcad225ed9be5e5c0a722dbfbe5960ec73efa0ce8ccceb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC64 17648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a35.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A35 16792 bytes