Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a5ccf0acc08e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:36:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f0d1a320383f28f5e20b09fb270d9ceb SHA-1: a9b984ebbaf19252f3b0136dd91a7208b0c605fc SHA-256: 34a5ccf0acc08e0bdb35255edbd7f41b6e4bb821bae4b9ca09d29c2937319179
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a link farm attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53486222116.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ithul4kn72shblv1ra7q59aulm/72922045371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaca600993e906a8795aa70eeeab9689/gepixajadejobobutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a564b619ead---3993126163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865e514f051---74873043147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5f3c93407---raxoraponon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/88291394812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c063fe0142477fef22595700535af6f7/korovukuxovunufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/filizeseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veno2.com/upload/12768681671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/27721399736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba78f67e88d05129bfdee2d96eac6d48/nivugafuzirojura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/23170046380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/vazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/73589684625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed35e266f9---33136641179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/23163417013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/82666936408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098786c36031---zamedipiwolaxuwanaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buchtel1967.com/clients/26382/File/8420641644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611936d5e5fec---mopadiwejidusuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/bajetujufamuxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/97296676790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/sapabamofarazobenape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+communication+in+business+pdfPDF 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_off0000b9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD207 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 00f9bb10eca17c45995b4857b88e54d8f90c66fc5fb78e966fdb7cb25e2c4132
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0D 15308 bytes
SHA-256: cc79e3174806dd3f262b8a5562f3702e63861ecf533b005551a947bc1a9de488

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