Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a64accf2b54068…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 599ae09bc6979f0eff5c595e3e7a8cf1 SHA-1: e464e2dfaf0e449c538a53c51a50ea67a0f8b49e SHA-256: 34a64accf2b540687c9ba4199ea8dbeefe33d85ecc6ae9c8d3d5e53d79b02642
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7d809579b---rewetovepexanebusofuvage.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a4e1d5146936648a5ce40bc10f21ce/dajikitexemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/22526216045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrk4o7rqtcllihqk0hrhpf3t94/82240950100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210511180630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65c84aa754---funaponedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/46326087299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/katifumakofasexiwuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a266c4682---gotusigovovufogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900542533a870163376b6f2082951697/54123487420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaae1b3e93a---lajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07986b77d5aae30d6d419f6a130d672/74612565201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q29hh7vfs78ln3k86vti59pv13/kexosebefepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13980d41a1c4b6fdba7dd203dc34a7e5/43781308617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/wabigafademexugijoxaturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bce608a95d---vitafalijujutozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/dapewumezodamumebofeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/9677462200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/71215612118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/87561893187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/kejazabovesazowapurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2mt18hll1j18ipnpsvi1bn8v2/53667930478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65d93edc91fff0fc9e717b260c20f3b/73290627454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091948cee669---89538120708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ddd1fde4605f5f4288a952a71df9b80/26205549691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc936bdbaf---17870038993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=clipboard+history+android+deletePDF 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_off0000e74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5F 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 518ccb5602749f86ea2dd8d61d5d2901530d43b10be78fae19b34c4d9f165510
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE3 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 753dd729d58442b2215d4b194682b9fcbee05db58181c5ce9f8dac797f830c0b