Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34306765b88e6217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b86bf1411fe8dec13bc6ce0d5f3c8454 SHA-1: 465c1cc2299bb934bfc686979ed0d25e118fe38a SHA-256: 34306765b88e6217da94ba312c8350a9de8a03980c0d06bcd21c50b44db6796b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are unknown or point to potentially compromised infrastructure, supports the classification as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hetl3fhlisr3s0csn6eqsr26g/1179695660.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://taxiporec.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hefngkb95nparoeasru46528i/50725362861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/lajaroxavikenise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4b8b5675e---koxubogunomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b933b82f6c---kemuzixaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/dogatidikedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b30187995d11e129a0b57f497e552674/tiwujopefipulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e5a4ef4f---detuxupotudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/31865865024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/50664969192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/23839794113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/2164559872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusitekisigewevikudibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/17020875883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/patiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/61931702318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/444a7b1fac958956d6bf2666aa2ee42b/jaxupelevijawojalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/16066794655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafc9f91617---26811298720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodawapusazetuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/sugirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7adb79c519---vamobuvokiwezorajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=i+was+misdiagnosed+with+lupusPDF 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_off0000f6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF0 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b8314ae61eaf00475a2d7705fe2a53e86b8f496c60572db3cc1d480042b79029
font_02_sfnt_off000127aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AA 16896 bytes
SHA-256: ec4dab1654263cacef76cba6d30f15607622681549c0deb614cc45c69f351fd9