Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1834a34d6ba33aff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:54:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f4a2e173003a894132a41dffea35d0f8 SHA-1: 67c4cfe80a31f68bf0a899a0a3468771f6e4189c SHA-256: 1834a34d6ba33aff24b047cd126eb59163fa249944589eb78aa2eb71ba73a7f9
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 file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=steroids+for+women+to+lose+weight PDF link annotation
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/54163021951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f713fe77c4f819df8d4e9047c943c593/49698568068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bda905d37f---liwogovumowufubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c675cc81ae0---89025301031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452656ec9c3d6c857590ce6087e991ac/49349774630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/18048334688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16081c702abaef---larutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eloglvnmn3tebqppe2t24gr22n/16524257060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/remekuxiwenut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q652uink1clh5ok1r3ee7ptvtc/vazedikebesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/kudazetemubitite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021061306090473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02435c6eed27f3cd11248e31a9210ce8/suxebiwujimibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaqvgbicdcvlaqmgncffg1et0j/tuzewibozojegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ce48f0371542d7422959da11e96614/7915127284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608897c5ce6bb---22554063783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa612883a7---mabisamubuloduteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077513664eeb---13096920099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096981c41e5e---juziwaxotawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdb18a461f---6429942400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a47317006b---12709893558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/lodinoditulokujefuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090707e91bd7---89920512437.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://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_off0000ea70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA70 16212 bytes
SHA-256: fc3f4ec7ba94ac846434e9537ef49511eaf9e39d5bfe9a1d617343a19731f0ef
font_01_sfnt_off000113dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 5019b8ad14028944d11d476151efd9e99c45332424065ab59a2bfbc6d23ab5f6