Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 341114fb8736fafc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 14:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3083f4fdacdf8194a6ab616babf984d6 SHA-1: d7293a020960545d86dc935da97bfa6d2498c2d1 SHA-256: 341114fb8736fafc95dcb186a4048e0d24fde205a368a617e3ec5dc11ffb33d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or serve as downloaders for further malicious payloads.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+future+tense+time+signal PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b48d3cfbc118d27704da2b4f8bde04/dadesipujobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9002b9f908ad2de977a275b8fa8f9db/rilagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea4f3cdc51---45703263929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb391a122d---lowogorozizopexubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/81586226515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ef44dbf1c---41710696452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210704070514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac913de6507---83707661229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/pileja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01106a28f0733e2d5fec0c4b686117a/ludobitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/87266738075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/79271066358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/51550715986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc2806393e---97012789440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8541e75b14a459ef10b9f097a5315f/11376510481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baebe86170b---41253557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/nepadodevakule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/53207711397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/fisitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04a2a4ff17---11427974731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/99093901966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/87259786224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/peridekipivagak.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_off0000efef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEF 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 2a581a80731d2f8bf84250ad2303c7ff0e92b3f9ccc4db89d731a711a58e88a4
font_01_sfnt_off00011d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D12 10756 bytes
SHA-256: d100060d6f2b2fbb5e79483abbd59cba9a702bfc34cff93ba83795809b9fd6c2
font_02_sfnt_off000135c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1