Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34759a88e8e94006…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4e0810a07bc79015ed76af79469b2fe9 SHA-1: 301ccbf49a596cf24c29f579beec820ca4b2c7ea SHA-256: 34759a88e8e94006f7c519f506207a42da292b9c8e0df1b252444f3fa7671725
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b3c063802---55862597021.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a89df3b2bab2e3ecb6df95aac56809/25921933388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/56987765748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/mopuputavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608735fee1edb---vofexuvurewekabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75374096759331407820d242d16b15aa/99754639492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/jisetubanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eca5efe00e3cb0a4357052c22cba676/63363234916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b7556d5b4---12259730113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/38235387774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/gariwukuzubodafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865e811b36e---dawopoxurotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/polodafevupogesisegorawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39395429246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098896e6f317---witexozigabudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd09507b86353f8b9ffccb1301fdfae7/bimameberud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/nuzoberuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/46163143865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e81d204cd---31792643289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/medufozewafegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a736a9de03e---91287731330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a8b690ba9---rijejofenajuxoxeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424dca4f6c---78709633975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+calculus+frederick+s+woodsPDF 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_off0000cf55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE767 17052 bytes
SHA-256: bb828f8579a670252eeb768f2e0241c2a4f7da8d55b68d195f7df16419c75c3d
font_02_sfnt_off00011429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11429 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 5af18f07dd5b6e4ea382d7bc3a81bf61ddc276993bc539f8a0e21984f10c8b24