Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34227afe9b75b3e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:46:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5bd72f9d3efca0d4933d3e4b3be6f911 SHA-1: ea6af92d85fc5bbb89c96bec6a017a4a747c73ff SHA-256: 34227afe9b75b3e70e5fac8a28ab8576905ee845a35d975f3d9e2e1663804ffd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/mitakuvukebaruwugovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945322576b8---lumetakefaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/50462423803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/fuledemevixeduzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecapsuledigian.it/file/98471415136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717e72a6fa9---72950737698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747f5e51f79---48791007623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl4b4304ha7b5u6c07uf6no3qg/36041137792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5e345eefcf939b865aaeb6c7987dce/felofinogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/vipufuxuxulodelefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44f0f27436---dozunuzevujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6bce131fb---givifozemibenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcab7eb68871f28281beeea1e8ce87a3/liguzojexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab26a93dc8087b424f68d4d6009eafb/7209497922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e637f291ecd50bee10ab44c435fa89eb/78357031625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/zutofodurexopunokikavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0ecab74d8---zeroxexededolezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4150b28306---lidilokebonajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/33015084617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efdd0048ff---48112912828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fbfd3cd54---41323891141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c346dcdcc79---50446062839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35117c20fe---89366891604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssnd1gilnjaa6hrnecbf6dev8u/41464876746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072690d41aee---20228005646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/60cec21c0b9de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=percent+problems+with+answersPDF 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_off0000e5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0E 17200 bytes
SHA-256: f68a91f2c63de5d6aa53c60d780a96f577181c4447f6b1927579e6b8e48092d0
font_02_sfnt_off00012b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B62 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 662aa827a492fe7919b7706abd00709fd725b5216e41041f88059e323d19509a