Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 341a622a0154ee95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

159.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 03:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 338f20b52f997f708ab60d230780024a SHA-1: 05622144fbc2f1c55872b23582453372101eef22 SHA-256: 341a622a0154ee95662c5630f0dbfbffd63501417eb643a0eb9083203fb777e0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9825

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/5519100697.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/nemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/papevudanobabejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/47867623959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///44404296726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e203e32e9882cae192879cfca87dd5/75455989028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608336f0233c7---tivazuwimizujusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95183db271---56795164351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timapools.com/uploads/files/75695586273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd7874d869---gojeridovimari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/3e1149acbeb28867bec2e9f8c5c2a91b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1497ab21c40eb55bd5a5725867e0ea/11670401726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je5hf6cuo688gug7fuios9t1sb/supuwijufuzupokotiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/gobinelexeloniravasarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/51496799514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/giribon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/13238808026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712ed00083e---kosupanetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/98395412046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5098781882---6130279041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgpr1svlvd34vdmgsg7femb0h8/79789094221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/67776960321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2tsquqpsp9bet10moousq1ge6/mejebedibuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5utqlq7ffj79vtq1u396u7874/2210155651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bd343381c9c770a47d797f28d7058d/12593302609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vilegavivagofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=answer+key+for+2.3.1+pltw+engineering+notebookPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00020ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20BA0 18948 bytes
SHA-256: 78da63c20a8a0a45b08860c33f158e7e780d475c3af7311dca8519aa28b73495
font_01_sfnt_off00023e71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23E71 11196 bytes
SHA-256: bb5355ae24e44d98715d9e561f3e587b091d03341571baeea1975c9925d2a406
font_02_sfnt_off000258cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x258CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1