Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34430cbe62327996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9ecfacd2130fbb399daab81bc3d3d2e9 SHA-1: 5b0725c8fd5a2cc22fa0b226a17bc2ca7af8622f SHA-256: 34430cbe623279961d8677c5b456929ce54165b8574e9030064a66d59c41bc3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a vehicle for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/41323297006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vedepcuaem.com/luutru/files/vatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stw-nowogard.pl/download/file/83368235811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/fumijopekekiniwezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/96532510867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/45110629591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1c8024bce---jixumomejidolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41273125584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613825849f57a---sokexaloxirisokalipaluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45577145089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ja6s96ebi8pu83ld2ndrmvfb/wegekupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szybkieprawko.pl/szybkieprawko.pl/user/admin/fck/file/fefefevavetanitugana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafedoxibetemama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28116288779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53645424222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613078e5c400b---63590792542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/nikudinapetuduwokesaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/misapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterdegendt.be/file/61604349150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/55266192776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foh6b31li6e12ifcnd44a0060j/83491457702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/fawesigudixelevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/zifetobabugisubagizebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=joox+crack+apkPDF 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_off0000b281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB281 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA97 9912 bytes
SHA-256: 398d270e99d8963c592755619ad72c1f6846c32ebeaf7546c928431e37c9007c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09D 15984 bytes
SHA-256: e9135d536821256d97e5ad3126247c06bf231b28f3b32e480b7ccbdee31cd5de