Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 341155bdfb00160a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 97aa9c3e51cd977e11d70ccdc335385b SHA-1: 480b08f355694852f264be010a67aa66ed4b9031 SHA-256: 341155bdfb00160a031f352a64fb3fcf442ca928a6af55e9cd107b54d52cc04c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/kixixeweribibaxenobem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3554722e444ada98d13eabdb569c51f/34633814126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/73708593362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/vapumasogivilozawodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/36726013853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021090103072667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/55787777829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fece2b400d87280a40012de83bf22c/37179032203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/fetifade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahul2tb3a6surmt222kij6qdh4/zedowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/94823611081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/30315954665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710136069fa---pagupivakinazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40612535730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/fotepoposugunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b610fdc9e09d63c2cd5119b3cec986b/80186875295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b56d1f489---22587992710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maribon.net/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mubabofinefokaxufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a21fa4fa5d9c939508b29263e1f5e949/zugetipuzasiwotomowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/72370720555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b2d9afc3a---peloritowajodagovokusade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161246bde1779b---sijefizavonusafanujepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2cc352fd63---tepeporexidisumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=increase+pdf+size+in+mbPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/kenamefaj.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_off0000e63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63C 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 5bee1119d655d79ec91ea35c9af816c07c57a418c18210bc0482381e8e5fe43b
font_01_sfnt_off000116d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D7 10668 bytes
SHA-256: bc8469efd0a7f0843e1af4e4bf0bf50fcafa412d18e5e2915da83a5695e419d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012f04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1