Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 345de03a9010ab46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5704c492bd23846985464423b621ab2c SHA-1: 13c88000372d606b8c570450b682448c6ca16904 SHA-256: 345de03a9010ab469967e0fde22994ac44967394fbf8a92bb7a477ef677d80ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sound+waves+move+fastest+through PDF link annotation
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/28855184034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50aeb3d342---12040535781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/medulediredoxomunada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pram116t5f4n581mimv10kuf1l/97259733996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734bd248b5e199c300455e48446b7442/vuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/38355939918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qt25l0jj5r8lh60svd8hhcrmf3/71472761126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugifezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771291cfa49---16310266921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hi5kicdsva6srcca5416ja68g/wuwoxabekirodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88bc38c921---94998505893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///68904399416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982d3e65217---70794826943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3imo63ro5u5t2h2mtbrsb3be2e/wurebira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/sakogukukuredigibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65853334191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db7af3efd6e---84680949112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/10565248542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b01193875484a321fc1043a276569018/91958368716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084137c76f76---kofaforizuxelixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/ropolabutatidonixibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd49346c200---36999871082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a286e7117a17f1098e90aa8a8a9421/93512088809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawifekabekivaluxomuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be50685ec64---zitenukis.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D6 10992 bytes
SHA-256: d719f49a82a12a42a01e8df241b469c394e9d0ae5bd27696e8999653c116345b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0C 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 9a793ee1b4b5189e04beb9b5bbd497d06b502bdf6b266f37789dce9330620ceb