Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 635578e3929acdd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 168687acbd948e5e1349dcc41e0f51d1 SHA-1: 5b0315de7ea98a803cf5691921b8849bdc94ade2 SHA-256: 635578e3929acdd7ac6457a1156661c6c8b0e97c3919706a75dcc981a1f0abd6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, pointing to various compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbfca9a0ea---lapawumukuwevozufutix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_132708.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/zufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/47603321901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/27566864107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--72c7caerxx0d3a9eve.com/UserFiles/File/64775633843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/remugare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/2350119544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1631080384186611808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/meragudanofenuginejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37136deb839d58bb90b0ee009be13158/6990590651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/34211882036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegrelli.it/userfiles/files/77478567879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dreamstoreonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakotekunebuwudunajatuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456af9e6580---74195719853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/84066837513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/98393563720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/fitunajewuruwanisutiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27056608645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/mapumiwime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/71974346104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roruzajajugawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63318019332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=birds+of+prey+yifyPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CD 21568 bytes
SHA-256: 7d48f54cc926e4e915ae2fa7a24463e2ed83f6b87389129c8dfef0268eb1768c
font_01_sfnt_off000119f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F5 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 3548436cc24f1c95a966b824ea1121bb39abce845ba742552057f99e92910c9a
font_02_sfnt_off0001311b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1311B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1