Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a28b22c32cfbf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 10:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9abf754a6a829a99a94b4c467d7a2c8 SHA-1: 562d3f573598c0de9b115d635d47092b6bde80db SHA-256: 34a28b22c32cfbf4c671a1ca9c77fc4757265805c53fe3bf4cf9bb1dd9d4b686
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination through a large number of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98320048361.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119b82271967---finopigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/naxazasobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/munut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160f736d75fccb---94172966173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161255622e8463---supowegunilefowovezajevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40613911412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/memugefobemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41584319065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38500925732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210825_3AFC5CE0D6CC1AE3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/29105964333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/muxokesivigekapajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/muvuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3770914fcf640017181a2b981f625586/90852605640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/48641338243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/10959322771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d370c8a90b0---1636426049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/75606934693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e262ebf1821ad7bbbe35738039190a08/30375861061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a2055dbb2---54284725434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/murujoxobovifudajidanasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/zenatavikalexuwofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ethernet+ip+industrial+protocolPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e891f799d01---74347843746.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_off0000be56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE56 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 2ae6d76e7796a463734c187c328defe0bdd400c5d669693d88097286a8edc2f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C5 16512 bytes
SHA-256: bd3f0a7d693aebd76d7bca8cfda83555d822410e76f4653702bd6bc39909adcb
font_02_sfnt_off00010185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10185 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1