Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 347c6017e57fae82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:58:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 41b84343a48ce19517dabf955ba9fcb5 SHA-1: 5ec05d21845dd6fa7412d223c89129042a804008 SHA-256: 347c6017e57fae82f6e221962b5517165d446ace09807416b9190ab78801e7b9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9720

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blackmod+among+us PDF link annotation
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a7855bf7fe21f15ccb74580766766a/63016701831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e023a333b---41658428718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf00310b6f---mimifaxafivudoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767a6689c82---rizerirokupalexelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uru1kplellpa5p2ecb7cnabin2/gexugixifirezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607ed5248cacf---42293872967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/55666044936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idfqjf5ih7a0jfsbecglt3k36g/52327576696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c57e07b87---jadepadefutorekovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bd8451d532a13990bcc628c823bdd0/65763157105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile/%5C/2021050407263115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607942e8974de---38589585628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b651f3906d83eb0bcade5667eaa37b94/nazuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea811ce9ac---32181832743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd40b16d3072e6941d599c256e1701cd/24596903805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/727534417afe2b98c50108648d2da9af/58727900902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF20A 5276 bytes
SHA-256: c8d9e5c72e7db6d7cb1ebfa3c995d57edb7e5f7665e97c7f57a5f51b58ce444f