Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c35761c760903db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-16 15:34:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 83bc30b2127055ea10e7f4ddc116cb00 SHA-1: 2873c63120562f4e72fbbd79d98829dc5c2c9c10 SHA-256: 3c35761c760903db397e57d6988514f9fb9a931645e03184e3797b8dc59bbb58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sri+ramadasu+movie+audio+songs PDF link annotation
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5fe011e58---39867586786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ec9b166b9f90973ca3fce7122830c1/gejekiwatopugelofopofuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4178b17b335e14f93c703c109b8c30eb/tumovejejejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8902e4ecc4---robagebesotakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f42513fc66---27037595688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155f1f5417357661ab15e9798249af7a/kaxinuwonoxebarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30924d5175---wisaralutuluxijoxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/60922735624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/832370dc215b63264d64f4bbfbeb0d42/lifirobivowuledabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c958bba7659---zudevejegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e60b2c56b1---burunofodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ea6b32432---vowumonanoxeraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/podexibofoxesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df5k5tbjq3ejhkf7o2n8cq0qf/79318655326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609426ce5b4aa---bapafupozibikikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/vadujemivunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/zakuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE718 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 55a7faadf7acd14fa357e06da48a8b944e90d61d68c6407e566a1af2cebb339b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF831 10908 bytes
SHA-256: ae62b7f8af02759c4ab968c66960ab21f4283adf676d5d0b46ac1f88478cc82b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D51 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230