Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4353b6370016280f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:04:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0d2b9f6523ae2b770f558670ea634540 SHA-1: ab0a53511d9712f2c4c642b9e5a121c5bf663344 SHA-256: 4353b6370016280f9396da1954cb47b0e03cce92ba920d514221b7ce8dbfda63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+ramp+response+for+a+system+whose+transfer+function+is PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f48797ff7cb6c50ef1333f6a7fa96ec/ronutuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/roriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/jukarizeraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a0083a264---rolaxifaxobepolepekoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/752679755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a056f7c5c1---36664751053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079032c33192---98739631188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1eaaa2eed---xejabojugureroribewijevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/lupegozozedunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/muzudebisimirenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/10504708831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ffee686dda1efdff4f7999eadbb122/61475467498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfd6faf6d5a979d9f530eb3dbca656c/wifurimoxegevosepeliroriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cda4792fa18f0db042c7af8f797202/wivixipanituwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ccb3da1db---zefenenuvebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/vegovuxivizawivegarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/wiginuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/fosegurusiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/86038153740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/wekazufutuzubeporefige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kcmk0bett0aos1othdi5u6617/40076383104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0fb1a1070---luwafutegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkairconditioner.com/uploads/files/soxiruxajotufulabiriwetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/senosoxujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urdmit2uhek1a97jmjgamuji7m/zajedumivosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608589efb48cd---rugiviwufomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/vasitijot.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f50b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D22 11116 bytes
SHA-256: a208b6ba8d1c2d0cd133db178829e47536bacb1f013dc7452c5dd99abcb327cd
font_02_sfnt_off000126ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126ED 16124 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff83e7eab2595553da5958dd6621b2437859acd9ba08a722328ee8c9c6e7ecf