Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34287ab042fb447d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-05 17:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 86eb584dc3ba8df88be284e42c255641 SHA-1: ff0b40336b0d9eb276edf4d2307c9a34a855725c SHA-256: 34287ab042fb447d5a8414a22cbc615a05c4ed6839ac8af85cc15d475875225d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness, specifically phishing. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to phishing sites or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxujuzuzaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/31154484560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/21616525226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/82950431668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96a30dae3f---44433180926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/66827579747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/larabewisivusejutula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55eqgctchgjvd95n23cq0dcal0/9522655613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/gizerulovasorubunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee974527304d68d991e99b4254766dab/gexipudagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bodakameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94870394027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/sometujuxixidati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/pisepupugales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/20285800440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc05a81f7fc---60532434658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvajuwedejunigevupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5c1bf499---simiwadeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094304d9bc2a---xodanavafujubasuzani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8be204f64---41369414442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/49299516672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b3dabe447---fiwedefaromipikabuziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072139bea18f---22731283000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba11b304c73a8fece429d3ee21ea34c1/puxawusifunipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1qgv02hpq8ms5d1ccgns9vd0d/rukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=schumpeter+capitalismo+socialismo+e+democracia+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF181 11148 bytes
SHA-256: df8a52f5986d9f9051d161f8bcbba978dfb6ec52544e347bb566bd0422d7bb72
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5F 19196 bytes
SHA-256: 80cb4f0e335142076cbba85af530cd2866843f70224f80b70f6faec14199e8be
font_02_sfnt_off00013ae7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1