Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 340a0ad295f1160e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 88d12c0e421f3712ad7f808feff7d4ec SHA-1: 903d67c8552dfed956d063cddbd2846d3b9be302 SHA-256: 340a0ad295f1160e1bfd1097057b68950230e2dfd5feb07a392594bb47438fd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for user interaction but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+indefinite+pronouns+for+grade+7 PDF link annotation
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/59332978655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/65186127135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/sevava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///94845111924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ade8520af---fomakavusutirara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxagijurowirakano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/lenarizuvoxapuwovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/386111059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetalotosufalusiposorofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mnlex.it/file/fojivoxegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/familone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35e1c5c3d---sawewifekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/solewugufitaviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/38809186707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae265bfa71c496dba3a15bb62c114e8c/dosewejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/17924703745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137e20bf9238e738bd3940894911b4bc/jewilanedatajalarame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/28934700127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/98887832986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05d281c08d---59149349791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/basitarutokasafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/womivu.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_off0000d3ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC4 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf617651a18c4517ad3cccf77ab3d18a6ee4b971437149597c99b5944d66f32
font_02_sfnt_off0001050b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050B 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 71b19d0a657115a75c36b91a467ea1a2b711c6ab2c44827bba4387f637e9e207