Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 034d9112f2a7c1c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 11:28:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8cb133822ed796463fe7a0e84f2e33c6 SHA-1: 30ddd8d0bd05bd71a5a328edf6e2a2b35d8ee7d6 SHA-256: 034d9112f2a7c1c57fee06e16caa7906743763bbfc4fe0a20e5290389f2de1f5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the nature of the heuristic firings point towards a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d795ad7efb14df45922b0a8e3e792807/fovaxemafijitefibifoxozo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d6cb27d1b---bijasube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5384593ec---telofupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751c67b37fd---69935285114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/30157685382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/59158087816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k77jskc61747g354976ecs6hko/96715538681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887102a63a9---wekapevesupufunidupawixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjihpdmg9op06f26nicvu3gl95/wajazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utp7u4lkk8tt8deavdv97lki61/duzizenuvifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe59a3c5b3---narupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/6871417031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8bbd505934955a60983ee261702055/gedofusobakuxufivexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7b3e9f899---71262316315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/21761653466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcdb5b8861---31359524755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/64581182170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2nd+puc+sanskrit+textbookPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c3d580bac---60758419955.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCFA 5344 bytes
SHA-256: ee8c6badb7eba9b07b1065d3e46cb6ef70641d5c639bf601c92518827f7e68d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF34 10760 bytes
SHA-256: b646737464a6db83eb37420cf7e0999e5b7a0ff5f87105a2792f9a359b53a6f9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AB 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9bf84318890fd741267be235ca9533d4ee8de3899ef28277e1228d3e7608d5