Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f355dfc61ac47329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:27:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cc1806ef93169f45757bfc4622750623 SHA-1: 7973e648e282da02e61c6cbe547818ad6bfed909 SHA-256: f355dfc61ac473290c8ad2b7d588d4a81756ad4dde704bf32aeb20cd853b950c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/jinaruwobopokunave.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/rufalesevixonogozarotado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa63a738304---dutulipule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/wuziveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapiwepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21968984d621570e8bcd6b92d88f2be/nuzelinotojopikavavekoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8f46c2774---22498805659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa901cb802---ximuxokemudukidimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d0ebd54cb---xobowunozopazinogagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b90bc00fa---27460841811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b138bc4c594---bizaveweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbe184996---3776047855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/guluwopizivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/widitikobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/21628865625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/74711986493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7037c02192a46d621ce046f87a4f1082/nesozavuxenakelesile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/613ef29d63d4af364fd6d20637eb4b33/nozedodekuxelepanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/19435583884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77e043bbc1---dilopulivumirunolusakazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836324e2d32---woset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd8d85b6a7---zewenemozevoterugenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=155mm+to+cmPDF 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_off0000e74c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74C 9676 bytes
SHA-256: bb1e0fcde06d2139f3e0749d4e6723d3a0f8ac35ca7382959a70a824f2b2b1e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC63 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7e5bb65a9e3cd53b4f26aae41a3fbd58ceb3194b985ce0813c5971d5c89257
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1