Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 344df3ca97eda203…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 96a33bdd1992a9ac5f883419f7dc16bc SHA-1: 0946fed1a897cdb86602ce20f894668c81af5ff0 SHA-256: 344df3ca97eda20318cdf1a3dd3c84d7f127f7e58dc9b5bda6a76bca214a1942
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF is structured as a link farm, aiming to redirect users to potentially harmful content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/86368094643.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/49452250476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sol0nltskpajktdo9n9q0m7ps1/wupalonavuzugebumugikape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d064da0d6ecf7830a4d986351b6ec5/83131373036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8dcaf25cb718b4a470de0e4d5bbc0c/67146670008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r29r7oo31grb2iu8p6b2scg4t6/39224219678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpqs191a7lf9i52pqrj7tdp3i1/84813548152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6113cc64c4---72250364927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/samijami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/49551726631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/19404154437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfa954871e---37787080001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a816d3afebf---jomotimumepatedumaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euf8bftk3i1bqmir9a9t9k49o6/nepexaleloxisaneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/pozuxibebusibume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8eaf9e131---xarobufopokumuruzejeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a6ff3b38e---dezinarezurikakajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/35752980838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2037bd86bbf6a4757271e0352d4085/resekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/47991146551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwivetonopunusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/biwejudatesasupebojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbeb5fb016289af3600509e58c890773/34148396215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbe778038c---9492578381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=react+server+side+paginationPDF 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_off00011352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11352 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 8f88af0d4926fb17c7af463554635e60aa22db5d948439b25e1a884d80cb6c1a
font_01_sfnt_off000143b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BCC 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd2b2e27773703c2b41deea8195679fb539abdc271cb87ae07d719d110f067f