Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34640e99f6772772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 862874e62cd128ccd1ca083765cb643e SHA-1: 00a429fe78cd2ad92632377037bf026d3ec8f1b0 SHA-256: 34640e99f6772772b87a9381589a5d76b1ad55cca944ff9473445c84071e9021
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pleasanton.com/wysiwygfiles/file/9522446017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/suvesoterima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346ce0ed72e---70671678003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monteconsultants.com/image/upload/File/36631767386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/29121414683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b6a54cacf---27428534982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/sisoreserajuruvejufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/zidedavufejanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/tebalureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109090229252642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/88461338444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.co/userfiles/file/tepiwowaxoboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srmtteaparty.com/uploads/files/202109081311184403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://020tzs.com/baige/images/userfiles/file/46891324855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/63737386167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolavalerio.it/userfiles/files/xekirisaxizeneked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/79401676605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/59237574733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/buxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12886486074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/19091523712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6faf31f442e4cda4b48728e755f2c9/64455007083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/jowelida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+red+ball+4+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/26701805697.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_off0000d94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94E 17564 bytes
SHA-256: a321c11df3ece48d5cd1506983f8eec88341deecb014fa8177809730e81e2b58
font_01_sfnt_off0001071a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071A 10424 bytes
SHA-256: f54df7ba75d8d70afbee5776250f2247f3897d42f819b1ee0993e658fd0f7ff8
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1