Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35f6d476ee7adda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:05:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 863ae3a1a741ef3a66aacfb010e0416b SHA-1: 14be02fc904c5b9231334a3eca745fa260b5880a SHA-256: a35f6d476ee7addabe067093457dd02993b7ff20f853530a085940536db5ec6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/98088016816.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbb6d9974fb608feee73a719894f46d/duwinulekikalufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/14299501174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/84143199854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49460413186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14696039141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39285317511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/tamunewujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thifpm5ps7cfn9vvtoeeo9rus7/57439079397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f367ab5119---46048834001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soguzetenabetofovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e01f20fce---jovobepumedoralameloxuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210904211606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/ligivozogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/zojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/ludarasibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/5209809686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujopukaxixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/jimagudopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/74248373583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/rifologowesajedewulugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/balegoxepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65cd83b555780b3d0e6121834343e8bf/bezoroxefokekorivuvino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapibedobiwosudasinutomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fe975ba13---xuzorilomufimuxaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repetitorebi.ge/userfiles/files/32928823921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19bc49f5d7590c734dc6afa88562716c/bozinoputisonawuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=perkembangan+islam+pada+masa+khulafaur+rasyidin+pdfPDF 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_off00017227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17227 16920 bytes
SHA-256: fabb1e821cc2e54b27e485c5be03a969aa97f3882f254125345532399fc8254a
font_01_sfnt_off00019de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19DE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b5f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B5F8 11176 bytes
SHA-256: fc9099505c3efb56642520d7bf8394f3d11b777c7947a9a36419366fc100cf3a