Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 341828e4179db56f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 832e7df68d694ee19120fce86e072f4a SHA-1: edc37f947b6c02c044e2b2175c4b2b5d3c48cb79 SHA-256: 341828e4179db56fd77e49859547d4d78b29204663292b664f6cf7c68c78b723
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the 'formcraft' plugin's upload directory. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious content, likely other PDFs or executables. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ac0b912bb---91597990872.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b6819fe36---bofote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0434dcdc2---vuvepulelemadofevigukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab9a4d6fa2---famedofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e27dfc43bd---41387767012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91029d8823b40d67115ed367df2595a1/bipema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mn9bl3hcvv886nm3u4kjotuc4/pupilolowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89791c535d---bofilofegagafoxudagepulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbdirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topadegofideboxugaguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/97447143313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/22086975748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec96f6daeb6---nujajuxofabusosusamelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608503fe8a9c0---77313302477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74ec8c9ea3---weruwelipulabuserixofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208f4d78e9b23866e63993089b2cce6e/wopamutududuruwime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb68356fdfa---999324454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/zovedebikotokazebejixolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78ba353bb---givudogobigolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c2ak6go7to18e3asodgr7am3/duniwakoboweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/nifewopaxujabomonevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/52097898809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/mopubavubukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go35iqjpqjt863tcdrc0kg3911/55635629899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+knights+of+the+round+tablePDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010be5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE5 2416 bytes
SHA-256: 25122b52146e2fff4788bffc1b9f0ef70c9df9c2f5eba9526cbbb0901fffbc6b
font_02_sfnt_off0001165c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165C 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 2f37ea1b11ece644fef2f420fc5d5e29c860255d372ec3a711666e2589675489
font_03_sfnt_off00012c0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C0F 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd8bd0248aea3515caca7316acd13b8abd1b3517a3bc577d307872d738bbe8e
font_04_sfnt_off000145de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145DE 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 5bbef3bbb9f3449f8b82f0a6e5756962ded22add9630fe9e1e557267cd590941