Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d35bcdc06c673947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5607b804be3556a84803cba5babda366 SHA-1: 25cf92ef1efd604f745e08c0e4e23456952877ae SHA-256: d35bcdc06c6739476c186ff30419fcfa77acac15c8be913af094ea3a13edef1d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing or malware distribution, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k7milga2sg5ot2eacmk2g189v/kekenujedomurogak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a6uce9jgedo9sk6ubdjldqblg/6698485155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64222274839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/vexadevetatilenaxilawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/xoxukibedituwovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofolomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/jawixolereridow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdad3e72d280dda65fa49757209033ee/78594687408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d781da7e7040cd3c49945ec11811083/89250579226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/gimaragifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/dojawuzivepetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62489941774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neocota.com/fckimages/file/24332419368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/2021527232953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/vijowoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc3bv9k9hdftapt6ev06l2btu6/16952361888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210516190912340734uwc5ya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/ligobugufuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0otb8ft3d6i8fp4fntp66ufj2d/32442103333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinigebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33630163424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7f480c9a5---19796423568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7654295381---97774789727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170343032fa---67252643936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=manually+feed+output+stack+4250PDF 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_off0000b56c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB56C 14212 bytes
SHA-256: 0dde0a4132cd34b2a63cbee64cea92a41715ca18cdb5a2e8493df5bcc794b77e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87E 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 245d0c4f9e6f34775a3be62eb9c117e5654d7ea4203d32d29ed25b126479c60d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1