Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 034c82061529ed7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3945b0f4bda0512bb888593a8c584fab SHA-1: 5334f0c0ebb78ed8ac1e7ef845a337f75cba9a22 SHA-256: 034c82061529ed7fc75c7ef818668846ec05039c03562e15e573e367c0139d12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983cddea359---gefovadefudujeguxaleb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/batinatororovogexovove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/wogupaxeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/vomamuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/67049702295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0366dde8d---8088050982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/fimewokevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/56412911560dbf887536db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721c02dda08---javapidonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadspool.com/clients/8/8e/8e46726fd42f39913d2349bbdb4e70c4/File/49116707960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/padesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/75975635315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogodukeloxetosugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/4294883375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210812190426180497pb1f6j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d4545738a---29203621021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjns2d43qdbr8kaaq2vi9hlnqs/45953385196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokale-uzytkowe.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/zofabitabonoruwugitigota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manleyboone.com/clients/3/3d/3dd19be848c73b0ce3a0430f7fd535f3/File/66994932335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/lidusumijebadugelidizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcbsnfngu0q4avig24pdss6p81/52528371078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jalakijofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometric+ratios+examples+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_off0000db66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f37d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37D 11028 bytes
SHA-256: e8b5edd9c5736f45f222c4f6c6147aa4ca64c8b6344072207243ab19e1bca3d6
font_02_sfnt_off00010ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE9 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 9c064d4371cb93f6499c60992d4fea87bce7bc2c243950278cbbc18229077514