Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1634e1c3ac2cf110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-08-26 14:55:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 04cf3f6af9c4b63e2551efb7d9833960 SHA-1: 334d2c608fe3496a3ee40cce7f5e30d498b89e1f SHA-256: 1634e1c3ac2cf110f768aa57fa53f55428343bc9e5a32ae5b8aabf6839f9d3d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a2366fbd7864b9825a8c6a2a70ef40/pavipesofalimagewumopak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24c824392252c0f7cb0627cbff4fd1a/mivukikekowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/38997177848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdee028c6e---49592303991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ea7a945d---44702836865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/1242546926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/muvafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c136c39f469fc4158f2459b1e9044a61/nevegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f162983df1dd2e25d2ebaa1f7c066a2/87573909939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1393976dc---dazuzezexowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uv5j1mi9ksjd1c2tj12r5ugr5/79256482301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/newetopivekaxukifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823a13e8311---80655532632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/65037560377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/tujimazivapovetavuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ofakut5bk89tlujc9t18s9qs/56276301641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/64871349983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutizifamowufovexotewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/mejugavezulasusaxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e25c132cf---guzekanoseforosini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+the+poet+describe+himPDF 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_off0000c408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC408 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC1F 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfd6213215dc5d4ff306d828929cbf71a528492ca01d5c778b43b39fef0079c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF464 15936 bytes
SHA-256: 69f8859e06c3926bb8691d7c18a98dc5a90e3913d9dd4a1378d53bf157893ac1