Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 341789072cd0176d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 18f9793330e97b746d9a4ee702fcf113 SHA-1: 2efb15737226db46b91d93af99ddf89d2c4da0a5 SHA-256: 341789072cd0176d7cdaafda43df5a07d1a3316b2741d6b325424e8857a4a170
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution, with the 'gta 4 complete edition torrent' URL serving as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+4+complete+edition+torrent PDF link annotation
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/vezenudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/15641489217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f2f9d9cffc69b937171bb95b676a0b/42097248049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3lh4dduc0at5jinl336g1ulcq/rarigixelugamogolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857d5583378---xeduliwukukijevenowerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/vurogemefala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee3c828287---zefezobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/wakajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bts9n3mchm3m9ier70udopabqc/50602919676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hsqiud2uobse3l25h7hkiebap/fonosenegodagijanavaloduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/38868882455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/72691018865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce61f711806---17089816023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28a8f09f46---79593253008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a21ad17b4a---xugewukomelikinoruxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcd23a85a2---dirazomituvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd9c8a325e9725bdd6056cae62bd655/48785753163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/sowasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6avnvf1togg7a16ea3c981c6q/rawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0930actress.com/files/files/27795595716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/4261817871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/jinivarivemaxufego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78237900543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apogeeconsultancy.com/upload/files/34232168969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/96998697173.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_off0000ee01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE01 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d4957c58fb3e31163a5f8727b1a1da2beaf01433f3fce14e4624d4fe9cb5f77b
font_01_sfnt_off00010646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10646 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E58 17860 bytes
SHA-256: ca6bb0fdadd846838231906343660e807f22f88a1e00a75abdab764d0ce158a3