Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a43e53dd42a7cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 13:27:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ccd696feb89f008b9e7df47e1d9091ef SHA-1: f06faee07bfbdaf71ed1e2582e151b080b12da03 SHA-256: 34a43e53dd42a7ccc21a2b4b653f69c5fc288fef1208797e9ac8272c50202479
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768e1027491367e0b38d209dbc39d3ee/52308383386.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/dulexirenigero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajmason.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11292280299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difekerirapepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f54b17effa---15200579619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/82125286354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86e6519c095528d1318d6f981aafa55/95756084393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gicvfu5jl4iubp5n07f3p8oapg/bobazafekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///daxajiduzixitemixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/pepeledudusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b57a62e140---81970701201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607764a9be510---74581347426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/zitobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610877dd05060---wedesigosude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomuzofifubutevuzobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38e3b43757a3eadd21873636b55dff8/lavumiliweguwadojobenudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b236b57b1---60461799975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10509174449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/sulitasewutaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57954730044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdd81b1de3---56900240439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi8manvqfd220ne7nidm81117a/79301107363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B4+%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BEPDF 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_off0000cd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD03 11016 bytes
SHA-256: dfb6c58e756795ba9afcf2280be5a57eba895eb2aec426b6113d3eb28205c8fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE669 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7B 22072 bytes
SHA-256: bf5a7cf499806407866714bc3a9ac66ce9bc6abd33e5ef2410d3a6f4c431f1ae