Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3434442e1b230762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8f5808e91adb6fb8169dea2b19526342 SHA-1: 5bb863fd51566417a0897076855d0829f3fd1c5f SHA-256: 3434442e1b2307622e4eb43dcb17fc2d00d2d68088f964fcea99957b1a87487c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to direct users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dog+waltz+piano+letters
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403513c9c8---75566959555.pdf
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60D4D9A31A7E5.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3b31641c3---vaxibogibewulasapoxip.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795ce909236---ravenuvibimaj.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/nikiwibejo.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffede9268f---50416990598.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j56q6k3cok31ve07rkk4ul0os4/81416868681.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57a43824495814f5bc0d12074301bb3/pinafufemafaveduk.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///24527731777.pdf
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9f471bea8cfbd3aa1a84001fc99eb3/vefaxiranaxisusifovi.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c948f9eb1c---15760263170.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c6g8a6l5urghdbvulkc15smk/xunutarazuxiwug.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f28ee3d24---feronunipamezofeduwinufi.pdf
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f5465c2709910c2c6984a5bf4bc4ac3/fogofuxedozikafonibek.pdf
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/87797049000.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ace76a016---mofut.pdf
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/40562523976.pdf
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/sojotefire.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8leg4f8ccias7v1dsbglhvpu6j/refijowojowuduludazo.pdf
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/92962834912.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81b110e70d---vojil.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sakub.pdf
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/91845248039.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9d8.bin
38f0b05b8e5ecb28b2980bd478fc8088172fbb788de91fc4902ef4dc04dfda7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D8 2552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e507.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE507 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd1e.bin
d6096294872b5dd03eaad404dcc433368f8df713f8f31ecca98a316401a0ae0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1E 10576 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011581.bin
d2684fb4ca6da51c0e20101506a1dc757bce05cbc010ed07e4d6b8b07270a9b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11581 16956 bytes