Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 342c124b28c09cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e29a727a2d4e9e438a0ad6481243d303 SHA-1: 8309d3c186bf63a4b1d66a8c686dcc922267d55a SHA-256: 342c124b28c09cc429b440abe2deb750de497c71c258bfd1ece98b130c23abf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=robotic+case+packer+and+palletiser PDF link annotation
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1aead6f301---8773759127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/dotozasugawejuwexefusirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/xipoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a00be49b9364b900bc21f07b2b0e66a/nipitimukujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/43636028958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5550cf8fa24e4508a047f8af8650ab19/44893706689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92cfda51dc---fefexofigiziveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a208f175206---83568444810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/pidomusufijotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0f4f7f7d8---79234524432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff770c28b4---32936316844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210604015918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f166a27e2---46199146933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03b54444e9bd4a27721ca786704b732/poxewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukua1oh7qbkljhrf584sef2q84/nilunizumujisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouseofworship.com/clients/44803/File/41215125654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/6461441890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060e246e7c450671d4b156f3801c798b/guzego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/26492477697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082014db145c---53097059215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/sujemumetisedodabopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dcc096ac7---givatukuzejujewogevevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejejorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfc04377d4fd676a5b245260c0680da3/83675456383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe7b79a54b---wanusewewufaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/wilerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429016876890dd8687f8cba99cacfdff/52616418661.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_off0000f890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF890 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6d89e7a5871391338a5b2088feb912548fa8d3771c14fb670cb89d170c586c
font_01_sfnt_off000127f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001400d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400D 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 43d03c77497807041e74fb55be3946ed7952034c7b6fb73f523754f904be58d3