Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a7e387e8051b82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:24:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 978f578510ab54c3e86921f8b93b203f SHA-1: 4ea0e97b458a4a860d4c909018b6d0d6849b6085 SHA-256: 34a7e387e8051b8277179ffe13d7031bea775ff47fa4b17c18e86fc208620c5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to distribute second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=custom+rom+moto+e4+plus PDF link annotation
    • http://kyochonbuenapark.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/rulosowugajori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwejeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f5ddf426afeea9d42651ad27dde7c7/migoludazurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcrlclient.gilcom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidemujegekezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/70961897108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/41146164738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/56516572110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confeccionesruiz.cl/UserFiles/File/xewifiguditizulenaritod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapatosperezcabrera.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45935210922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopetrillo.eu/userfiles/files/viropenovekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/kibemewelolepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/86851275498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/50399250993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/zasosuvapewosegiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c337e881eec22e7a742a341834510d8d/xetufonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/43614671630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///49131185489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/wodijetasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents/files/jutedigilovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de943ef35e---38464335941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopherscopes.com/userfiles/file/vugaxuzolemuxowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvenirzp.com/uploads/files/26073151778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109020812314758.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_off0000c869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC869 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 3924bcda216bfcabb2a0d4837169c24fa2bbc3e4c2f0a77ce82c8dbbcb25fd70
font_01_sfnt_off0000df9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9D 17812 bytes
SHA-256: e0e2d53bccf3fa8a390117209e264076c4900747dc458bb4e297a2f847ac3691
font_02_sfnt_off00010d96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1