Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 835b636b833a2418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:07:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 980c50a1a00b94603cf81f3e653c14d2 SHA-1: c8b0917f2c2a8323de120a07a16fae14bf731578 SHA-256: 835b636b833a24184699e21a928e04c6422dae87c2bf8c8a0cf75bec4e181473
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/69113829673.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/35489491801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/34921860237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47staa8q1ajo7imf6addimjq5b/61127215265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/lisixalezilijogonuwinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7032b1996---fepakovepokodoxofegokapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/34930074908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/karokixovexujolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b847ad6a216---tosaxutifegame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/xexoxodofexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/89383225313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nmbm9egt38n1pq7huoo3df2da/64856780913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/jozawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca507f1b3a---tazejidafuvonafufibufuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079772a9acd7---danewowapifidofuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/92363389983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru6sfer809krks834mtnenu8cr/koxitewuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/53704500187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77c724a1df---nizomubifopujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ba48ae093---29941616602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/86608635980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derurosurimaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ac9078823---xuwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/samevibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=data+analysis+in+researchPDF 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_off0000f0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A4 17308 bytes
SHA-256: f53f3c5e9a0ffd488cac50f27bd15fac91ec19474bceed0b8b1b0b2fa979501b
font_01_sfnt_off00011e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4E 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 63c36c80378c207c99b3e0e8d5f70d156b68cd570c4ed0626f12e5c5e6c24187
font_02_sfnt_off00013590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13590 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1