Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 369f0721dc6dced4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bfc6e3d271fa7a4040a8b12ec9b29363 SHA-1: 578107ebb7b7f8cd0ea7aede2680685a4c5fe6ba SHA-256: 369f0721dc6dced432064616891ee7bfdbce701ac8e3d7a5d1ae9a67d3b78782
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+windmill+project PDF link annotation
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/maveperagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832858d7670---51464260747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b918838b8---83101295463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b231a36f8---40201338399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/dojaluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28698327a2---vofavipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/52183459488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/pimadewejusili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8232a6242d3b789a37a1cb5a7c964f4/80441456174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v5546od93bj9p96v2etk3l4p0/82654727036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad2569a816---lopevodetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607925adf16c4---vadefowojesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/25892763643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c856d0a9e15---56876650734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ecd89ddcd---11506982557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5514e28f497b8f8a0523c06449edf141/92017008336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f65cf7629ddcf270890bd5edd1b6a0/93082827570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/6447936929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/74310115286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/jofoxusefoladoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3003cd653f54dc5c4ed5ff40ea6d0f23/72808707431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74c47b8ee2---23934291406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b356902911c---62177618598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d21a0688---mawujoladuxe.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF774 17012 bytes
SHA-256: c886e11e277c746aa7a67f19aad71fbcfc3a63054af9179aca5fcfa3da85f8f5
font_01_sfnt_off000123bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BD6 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 373102e4d34792ad49775bce0c469be3d5709e71a0812ac47846bb25c7c4d8b8
font_03_sfnt_off0001549e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1549E 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 8c1ea993115239f5d85bffe4f618fbdcb7ae8d8da954fdcfeff59ff38a0214d2