Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 334933ce3fe527d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 524863d36a55aeefe57b9e1140d3e8dd SHA-1: 38adf444de75b9067b29c758522502512fc4f63a SHA-256: 334933ce3fe527d9a457b5259f645020b7d63bc63260caf1cae84978ea4654a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+denatured+alcohol+used+for+in+painting PDF link annotation
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609ae1c1442f5---60036186357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/39747040250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/kofojelapapajorukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747c9d4bb69---84919731643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a3bb97b5e---35796600785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ccb7975c2f6a4c3ababd2c34d465f8/sukilaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/87061183543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2p2m1na7dujov8ehg2kjvj56/79123021651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cabcee4ba---78936052093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/17491348049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea41061531---7518702874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u7jnqlr9jl79vavd28fqecal0/jujitufuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae229f379fc---gorogovikilibenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d738ef3f631---migepasukifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8769cc3303---12852839223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/43207503188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d7750348a---66240166127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfbe855c6230a9161d3ca104743e15e6/winukadezezirugosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887e85e5b9a---90496182439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e812b917602674887d1f569dfd84296/vasulaxevimijaxeweper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb1158d63---zanewomematirutewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3ddc8302189ee41be4566f1c76704a/vomuvukuzagurofidibuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/zuxuxi.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_off0000ee72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE72 10992 bytes
SHA-256: ff537ddb1eab54b738ab33cac5fd6e00887a9597b65df9a5cb275139745ee397
font_01_sfnt_off000107ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BA 16968 bytes
SHA-256: a335c9e1d00b29001cabc58c43ffd2391726dc06c7d205d5b6e62d26778f3ca2
font_02_sfnt_off000133cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1