Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 348e9ac41858ab23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 12:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5b694f00054e4954825d5b94144b68f6 SHA-1: c268f5fc964d52c9f9a375366ec9be7a7924b353 SHA-256: 348e9ac41858ab2381b0231a756982b2698bf694927f67c88aed42ca7e8d3e29
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves as a phishing lure. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters further support the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/sogesogozibonigumula.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9247bdfc9c10d641844bde1b119b42a/nixamuloxajujapenepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/8522444839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094568cc790c---39973112620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrumbiznesurawicz.pl/userfiles/file/4463132245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/26766956920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a9afee08587f30788a8c7e2ebffcb80/nimurenoletesolalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d07aaffdb---kusatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b83635267---40892912281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/79364879712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949331576cb---69219386171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802bd2b50c6---wevejesepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2feeccafda17786f8551a0d3b79d4e43/nubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb5d2c990c---2584877566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e871e8179---nukivotabugitarodoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd248tl12jisu3amohpbgkpj15/33542985831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609300cf7f412---kavudugugukolejufebori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c921c935d---sutogepifimotoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/fojulefonarinepolurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/vozevenodewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/67052269274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/17817064118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098315c4cbb4---pibabesejotunoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607547ddbe93d---72079546688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/valiguzulazotasusepuzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dictionary+f+wordsPDF 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_off0000f373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF373 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8a081533dc8de1b35fd48a886ffb3257968af9e123b0601375374e7b9742bb
font_01_sfnt_off00011da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135BE 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 181fc94ac749734edede6530b9509479753a3313a1d15786f653e5075a7a44d4