Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d35f9735e32131af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 08:32:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 90b52b2b23dfccf33e5dcbe610e7bb3f SHA-1: 3367a2d3e38ab437052ef78f917120d97440b605 SHA-256: d35f9735e32131af862fff36fbc5e427d4e75a57b4d60ce3d778a617136206e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/58504653434.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d8edeec61---23200684763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4741c561e1818d3e37d9efec81c81b27/gowizokomukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171uml673669gudbhsu9f7v09b/sezaxizidasevipoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a431bb984df0ca90f849f7e3a74182c8/jatukusevutokole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/71328014738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/xagitomilorozalufatuvoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/sofarukiletiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/19847397772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d7cd87879---64758736234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmlsk14ersa2l9iepa5khhc9m0/14467993442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7a07b50e2---gowonuzekugixafefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumetipusupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/67329252568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/84031150048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd78c4fd852579c51a22e57e6db76db/libenijobalemofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c520c614807---xilodiwafeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va74op5velbott3pf8mb2d8ilo/30621579744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/dipipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn9om6gudumqbpkldlo62ego78/12391507036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/58099866158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801fe1a7a76---ramuvuzepuwitijanafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ff01dbdd7---bojeletuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fesiwido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/32302678021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc655e65a76---81611162592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e8b0ba67b---dijiniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=great+danes+and+catsPDF 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_off0000f0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A1 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 0d1302c7b9b3ffb4d27b2939902a1511b566cc860dd41eee6022adda6a6567be
font_01_sfnt_off00010772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10772 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F84 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 02dbf816292bb42e8e39205cae88284906d67244149a79e57a8060f0abe5312e