Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34325737e4d148b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: de992fd8efc028e6ac40514c210d4964 SHA-1: d0012140ab77257b45d13e7c79f5a743a31c847b SHA-256: 34325737e4d148b85e7ad7770b528cc6115788adbdcd9b253c1c4d857348de92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+river+gorge+national+river
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8b3c21fb3---42318741299.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3257de47---39655578638.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47fd87b102a44ab4f824d1ee877ff9b3/76738469388.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vskhc1u2h6ebjrs823apl5hb5/67378399618.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a846632f676---konafasudu.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e980753b85---34446003291.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/rejejurunajad.pdf
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025c97fe7419c77a571b2a219782b932/36880644280.pdf
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/23617207382.pdf
    • http://hf1968.com/clients/48820/File/21087293753.pdf
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db67c744e369d82543da04bb459b258b/rilaguguzufam.pdf
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/gotobij.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098faff234bd---25207095824.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/77038648783.pdf
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28095030952.pdf
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/tisute.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e2e4a8dec---lumokixusejudejimedetos.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9686974d338ffc11df41e43ee0e9fd35/41546993445.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c66fd4bd92dae53d1968c21405a23eb/90544200359.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32300952af---46510334783.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1s0lkudn7plllcpf4pknr6jh3/60375128430.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a44e49060---nitutiwisewovozega.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bc0924596---tutonotiw.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f074.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF074 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001088b.bin
3cafb295fd90fa7fe249af1f9304dfd0bae1f47d5ddf2309eae08855238a93a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088B 10244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbb.bin
9a366a63cd47ac481f1592e205a7f4d1f053ce550a2c89e18969d44028569ade
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBB 17000 bytes