Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 349ec3b81094d669…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9ff6df826e93a0587974ac5313fe41c9 SHA-1: 765ccfad1c451b4fd9ba836d7ab8faaf17ee5308 SHA-256: 349ec3b81094d66947390f6e36ffc4afc0e7c1c19a054a753946c406d4a868c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially exploiting PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/48935867775.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/giwojonogekasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/zebudivabidetagenomevepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/15854159650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607549acc877f---91473116683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/25845392224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/xituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wefolawoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0c553729c---31237770837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841b8484fba---tibazagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/91906551617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/77932298729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-commerce.bg/files/sijawexego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4183ff1e21f40ddf811dfa3e25013b0f/7091696022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/78457578825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg5tfbdvkm2tsu6larki0obg07/zulalodajipoxamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49a208b2fe---33300762515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaf3361a52---97501062786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1760478ca---7113618440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4a6a6a517---gogoviwobomozamekijato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikulibeneduluwukuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+boiling+point+of+a+substance+tell+youPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/napuvubevidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6E 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 0478080c43ec38e38bb0764df3c86c8bd7d1393c1af94ccb7ecf4a13e8df35e4
font_01_sfnt_off000117c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD7 11148 bytes
SHA-256: c1a7e72bda789bc11aef3c36cc5bbbc735a1a8ff7e89e2d954393d6eb43222ea