Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 343668b6d1f0945e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-16 19:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6ccfca034d215c3f017cfd53d4c1b52c SHA-1: 17166f430ad86a83c1bf6a859b21739d1e93f5a2 SHA-256: 343668b6d1f0945ec59e30ff86cc9c40056afe09cb357bd50a3f85a3bfa68d3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates the primary function is to host and distribute links to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wwe+unscripted+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/31707077468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/8928030554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/sovexasarakuvitonofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/femodefoxowifojupofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb535cb28e---38314946636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/20326717863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/5437008228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/188b9210ab009f08bbe8a88da176a1cd/48134949417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/kebumupozurabugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaaefcecdffa075d4fe4ce0026ea350/96409319921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98c1891f9c---gukuxabeturel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/barijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/89590173518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsuathientu.com/uploads/userfiles/file/37384867531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a420008cdd---sixinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/futoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ea48b2c72a577eb60beab6282e790e/6061218566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/79214981872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a627399ab---55318278301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b5fcbcebf---wanewinikafabivefuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pontus-sd.eu/uploads/file/bojijakijixokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0130ef697c366d389eee024cbea9c35b/sifanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/9688488875.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e25c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25C 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 321c424e2e2cdabd53fc168126fec6f9f889fde8a9e3f1764d758b50723779f9
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD4 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 66b7945b99a9c78025a9a0ace4161995b24b08b80ea391fd428eddc3553bac27
font_02_sfnt_off00012697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EAE 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 444e46a6003624b158a5b2acdca0ee692b122fef2f6e1b3d2de68b11efb92392