Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 343e5937d6f50600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d8103255f6a750637919fb7c13599258 SHA-1: deff2197937f5f772db3b452225de131f080baba SHA-256: 343e5937d6f50600e3ba46cc52a0677f50aac3f682c268fc9bb56a18b9cc04dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+up+tab PDF link annotation
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051419301240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd221111a8---56439307374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4136453990---45736322453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/10657597364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etnorom.hu/pictures/kumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/bozodibemavebobevepubeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b539e597384---xuxomekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701a21b9390---wumasakejuvanaripegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6cb478869---movupagozarobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f41f762ce1---lepatajutajikujasasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89ff70aed3---11815419428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/rivowifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4b52966f9---70188637169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/7639590612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/sufesowobufamerivojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8e14d2906ea3f0d30f1fe94fc8c32d/49926086262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16198935972025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/1412788033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b9d162634---wowenomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba9b41c328280107b750329952f59f56/35857337656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430ee40da8---ponuxitisamebibawabameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/61535446578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd5b287586994ec0e0520658026b7bd/2853343194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/rifusumudumatofaf.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_off0001010b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010B 1792 bytes
SHA-256: ab6bd8619fc99182091ed884df8e384143a4f31982a5a8b7f531558b4203f358
font_01_sfnt_off00010982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10982 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 7555ae37db375039e00e54fd56aac3cda83486d40f7f1d535ea6168e49f84bb5
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB0 17784 bytes
SHA-256: b27eef455981edf854b45ec004687d1e77fabde8a62e35a28ceee48525a1cedd
font_03_sfnt_off00014dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1