Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 348697d588c9959e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2ba888df14225681b8b065431ec04a06 SHA-1: 29849b366d0f53b46772a3d9c62e135bb7f2db46 SHA-256: 348697d588c9959e34152a6152c624ad3e8ec10bd8260fcaa91cc72475be1be8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://maturana.cl/upload/file/vavorofox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/wulorapite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8c8ad5376---50190433937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9dc750d62---tepuluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e7e4ac20c---43764415957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926df497c7b---61642234061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0272048de5bfd342b9a049ab376ff2ad/16551197395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/60759037751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/degiruzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/90587627084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e1c6e05e4d3156f72ea9be17fbc246/20360942253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/12631425263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e71a333ef8---makixonapopufukome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731173b2110---sevibewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f742bc3fc8c216f6a49d3566da4d9ae3/tosilitije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5dl8cl3uqrc7cc4mqkgbibb1o/91067842518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073207a0a45b---11991345824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5u5m7t1nau475au2a1qb1aer3/92619887053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0sherfpura07t9pg94to7q0eio/63126007511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078599bc575f---41331658319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/denexawodapokozetowaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tljj4mn3mfkouk2r5ok0fdll1/zezoguvenirekeziluburolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080617dab039---mifilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpu0n1b1hma3f0t16m7aes9eu4/nomazefekeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=4+month+old+lazy+eyePDF 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_off00011b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B84 17004 bytes
SHA-256: eede470b851dfe3a91b4acdd7e30b5894bb781f609184dba459e1bf3f4d1868a
font_01_sfnt_off000147d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015fee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FEE 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 073214eca0be606f8f2a23d415b967c7be83c118e5177e4f4f833c3a206766d5