Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34713005629180a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 90ec7d002ef82c1a3ed70afb0a5164f1 SHA-1: ca7a5aaeba016cee89d382cc6bd3e98b2530cee8 SHA-256: 34713005629180a046554a5f33fe60d0f045441270985be350eb1d62c3f9aa93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098372e40c68---23413752732.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d126f33db6---wokupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fa311909376e50759a3ed580551ec7f/salafede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991ec83d434---83630982482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6c6505e10de96d300faa929a2ab406/92165686793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/22027520597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/5140933487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607920761357e---77453471252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4gf096qpqigrmcpdf12rqhg5/63652835066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609609b9cf9d2---79880569943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f59097921---simisukanuviwubuxewolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b137c2728f5---70507856218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsnk0d9f17plic5ov0ghbjjo63/68912826582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/moxajadukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3a393a0854d462ad70a0f6bde7b275/70666239247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/adopapuxerumuwunodepowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/napurenulureliromol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65419029552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf74786334c21d9758aae8950801bf24/zufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/gipigiletetalidosidukuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd06828a7f---36788826014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/zexipuruwixenojegotosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/671ff1eac4fe3340dc633bd0bf778b61/sapazimegawananage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=confidential+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF04 16572 bytes
SHA-256: bda0d19d210060c693224590f07e01107e2cbda18ea7cd65ce0362fe5480d143
font_01_sfnt_off0000d636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD636 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE48 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 28c4f3d37e66fcc76890dc13362a168208e1e50b8c62d0948f6b4ba2580975df
font_03_sfnt_off00011ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 537e476ff74fc276f6f18b4595b7607637902d71a1e8cbc5b92056235212cd0a