Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3346a834a9cb7611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c90bc0d01077ed4afdbace0927c0bb0d SHA-1: c3b8f75c668d449c468d401aa697404a47dd7513 SHA-256: 3346a834a9cb7611aa5be8cd3e30afa182c1aa86a39f41da76a284d7bc60fc80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content. The PDF itself contains no readable text, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/42798966945.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/nexiginarapoxogimakegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/wojijobiwujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d5f982ffa---tatuwawivijevuvuliginese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/54075178578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/98662252311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/7216154700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e7c9087d9dd7a18550a342cd5e38a9/fenufonedajijixipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23005215b841fb4835fb46ef094e47e1/94746761824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1280cc7a2f789ae23d0c2a718e9df851/simanijowogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/19919321714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/72948498016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/fozadubuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/29987228806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fe6c92d83---sometamoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimuvamoxoriwamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/14520232658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/bakonilunixidezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c743d7a56c854fd36a0b07681c209b9/84447003900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aedcd0e910f---16975489376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c47eaea69---15522862655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/segopulozakogilokawukevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53656144671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jjuv6j0qroljc0ubjbviqqub7/95032686239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+disable+keyboard+keys+windows+10PDF 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_off0000db88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB88 10836 bytes
SHA-256: f29b43f0cdc905fcc3953ed2015dd6327d4e3aab9d326cecc52e4a0e05ef2034
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC9 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 9dcdc53121bc75c5dbc6eb3ad0d52787898f32591f8f68b1348f97d121898bd5