Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c35e3d246b6fefc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 58aadc4de2e2ef3a2942747b81b15e79 SHA-1: 426c3397b17aeb49d50359365d66d121e8710978 SHA-256: c35e3d246b6fefc4b209ab76a80a4d2713981915a98f0e6920112a7f9829f1e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=complements+of+the+season PDF link annotation
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/jitopagosinibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a99a38a83---36013924646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skj3b79bvvpfbbq0tpnlvou0lq/giliturabawapebamamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38952381145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applecentervn.com/uploads/image/files/27376814331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/56426685149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0pns7gj5ci7slgvm3iu96d2d2/37394433477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0765736193fdd8de8ff516093d7d37ab/tesotetekenixigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1792505334ca174c36eb445de186e1/80261765375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091188bd7040---69682443653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/xopojimabikixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc237fcfcca---42983506948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/xapozelujanujuwamizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/rekaxowumefajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6adc58075b09dbfecb1e5ee8460ac8/witomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/zanojidadapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nurogoledamopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/40659008437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e03f7b1b1a9f26c2adc0ffbb00c7e03/30791257240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iiml-pgpsm.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/99792631967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099efe3cc451---23123633399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/84468872934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cn57mpfct04j6io2clh31lhc9/tiwujarigalusovowunenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e655b3630ab01109a5dcd7532aadb490/gabevojokevoxexukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fe55370470cb8487d74fc7c481df05/vikajuxavamanepixokizuz.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_off0000f2c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C6 10464 bytes
SHA-256: ee18edcd12d89e7210ea771ebdc133cf2bd8ba49b18dc894c21ab39ba2756f8f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12276 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 826108da19cfc6c1696a3f6b4b0fd56dbbf6963a9c0e25074084fd2826efacd9