Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34167247b9c1e217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b55303e14da8f17848c3b2f2e18c1e0a SHA-1: e52f29bf52ebd5833df5cf6ccd356ae766812db3 SHA-256: 34167247b9c1e2171f76521b75bc031cd41103e2dc05a89950d57c12b83acbe9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9678

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 http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/91530705476.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78742ruo2bcd47vnu0hthqr7nd/baxifuguludilugizotelegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975992c34d86547938d92af7f6097e16/13943167558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htc3tj1oo50ns529per19ca2d0/40456503275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q978q0ifdq1u5crb7rqffm7f4/zokirekobogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6dfd1e9c3---puwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767a6689c82---rizerirokupalexelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5e87cb64f---52173107635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/gozegizajudomekeladulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8f3872132---98136644887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5l9mqda0bh79p0g7hseao7jjl/20828007784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983dc2bd141---24026048869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701b8150dae---36230264946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmickino.ru/sadm_files/22629856079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/3241495522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0b13a5343---zavaxenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/ribeponutokuzomawiribet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca48f79216---20273481296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495td00nntok79k2l359mllg5m/68857069359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607555d573a58---24273515792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/gewubonubokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07ad0140c3---milakuniwuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a23b0fddadef19600254adb0f69e972/7202478793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30ef007b63---davomidunirevipowoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/41119290244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a413bcdde---99612061912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=javascript+for+pdf+formsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B20 17968 bytes
SHA-256: df0503de44b38f5fe379d86b68243d6d3bdde6002e2549a4b4d3bcb1f0c29257
font_01_sfnt_off000139de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000151f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151F5 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc80200c184b8d48560e9689fe15f3d7f9d23a11f6bfe4cfea33bd22009d3e3
font_03_sfnt_off00016a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A0E 16876 bytes
SHA-256: f2569736eb4a7a3f0ca13ce3ced3ce1ad39e209effd10f80792a6f9efb04ba27