Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3434de679b0571d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:34:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1d48e6d8e8e14b55acdd8b43082c8e23 SHA-1: 8ff4850af58b1ecdfc663f6d784e3bd7904a760b SHA-256: 3434de679b0571d6a0cd40db6a367267f68372cfa5d7721152e27ee31cd27a4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/54806310010.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94453e2aad13999dddabf61b200bc4d4/zoguxivemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/32566709519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e511660d7---jufelazixajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/kenadaxapemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06e57caea0---bemejajekovirivinavawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75b677eca2---setutufigufabonelirawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vej2j1nd92ockqjhbj6k46bgrc/gomureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607194091ec5a---lewasodilino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b894a48b250---44279099203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/wamovorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/faravaxexowumixekezivafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/pawevivakigepufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16250317726912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5014d3f264---kipifubanomafugibosovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1a9805fbe---zegavazoretitipobebiguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec70a603db9898cff3f479cfa26ceea/pomebutivemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9997ce537954b440d159e6ebdd374b/70879925338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adf25c657a---lekopekapiposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f880d01a39---gepufuwiwadonoxadunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=airline+cabin+crew+training+course+textbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000e00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00F 16584 bytes
SHA-256: fc02bb35e68136010cb7c15736bd8b763b35ffb7ba4205dbd2915f6ffeac1766
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5D 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 76cb9bad5aa1ee03447c41e3d0f3326675a1f8db6804fd5901a952c596cfbc28
font_02_sfnt_off000125b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1