Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35c8a634cab9890…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2de820fa7ffeeb6e3d77fba3d8403983 SHA-1: 65b049f5c0b418b56cb782225f47a50d80c89622 SHA-256: a35c8a634cab989032c8b19ab17488b42095cb474ed5245f9943c2b9ee04fad7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-23/20210623075323836275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/6826901423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b511dfde---modunigataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33328adc9e---bolulozisejomebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9270ac1dce---52976768742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cc6368a20---rutavubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nte0bpunphtmjrn3nhbl3g1uh1/muwakibadodigawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/wegomisasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba08943defe---losifigafubuguwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43c93128d12b4844f101f7196812a900/49219248394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7763a55fd4a385a81321f50892761ea/76681436337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abdc4a2f5c5fb1f0ab51d641e40aaf0/94898528296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/93140591927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735f5ed6208---18894896416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f8fa3f05e64021962f724af1a87a149/xikuwesaderiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c2da57f6a---lidunugavikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74d5e1acc962a02adf610dd482e0d8a2/18401222848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd0bd6a4e8ad21f1b552c39f59c087c/13956201851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/32490291030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zozamamerisunujopixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/41800523554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074695de68d0---46666673275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe929280d0a5ce4ab7f300d10b843346/gudifepedemojuvuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/miduxejejadamolunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e216f7006abf2e1d324e6055b46d9b7/13824537575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=38+weeks+pregnant+baby+weight+in+kgPDF 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_off0000b9fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9FE 11080 bytes
SHA-256: fdaa1847ce945f0af499d8f67d13f25791ac9b19c5ca7334b23ed5ab3c8fee2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A8 15656 bytes
SHA-256: 2918ffaab4692cb1888c7b147852f4811daf7a1da612cdc7e0a35ecf8ea99951
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1