Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 370b5ba53d1c32c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 20:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3fd2da63e59d0a24fcc44748c31d4719 SHA-1: e593f74f5b58abe598d842f580708109424ef637 SHA-256: 370b5ba53d1c32c98f9924d10e68875f5b544c1335affc87bb6c2fbd76a36dbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. Heuristics indicate these are link farms, with some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these linked documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://revtechnik.cz/userfiles/file/22581338760.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/28965223797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/lezabulowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63504126400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetownsendfamily.net/clients/a/ab/ab79602242cca8f930cd52af13df1d51/File/64237889072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4ff7e40a0---jusikujivegutikatekoteret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb9usj5bfn9l923rhhjaov6pbb/wukejefilefajonebofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents//files/48166458846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atallmed.com/userfiles/files/xawiziwanemapefipafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/64009008936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098478a3b872---kezepaxodomilenonimavoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/tedutemetamelenupaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/tutusokomijivimedegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/nopivodirexemutisovisekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1250604e73---51566879063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/totelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986084a2d0c---87558863893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/87743693331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atp484s50l4rdnn5sl77f4i4v6/7130688178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87cd380106---wagusesewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca78bce47f8c569c4d96cd2de2cfbed/63494201809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e422a14bc---liwileximevalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/83905443061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/82365377416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=libro+historia+2+secundaria+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85A 10988 bytes
SHA-256: d3f6bfb78dca2d55515782f5c5c815672ede0c3973114818891c8d64a62cef36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BF 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 505f1f16fb057e2a34e7666bb0a43a50f2e0b7bc0033e59b70183295ac12d2e9
font_03_sfnt_off00011ef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF7 17520 bytes
SHA-256: b8319e4330250e753bd9201fc3a0920242df07c777fcbf2a32f70b700e530c60