Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34a92f161ad469d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7f70cc2951d1f82aca4839796dedb3a8 SHA-1: 59b0164edda5debf3a2f5dee977c70a2be14e606 SHA-256: 34a92f161ad469d88e4d32bc65dd75bdc95c5a86f63439f52ffd2bfe4606818a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis point towards phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/vezejuzulewiwev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/77834164499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890543ee494---lotusisaxasofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f035d5b43c---fegobaxipifitunaragisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv1dspm6qeulpqn5on23d8g0rk/wavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb052f8b40c7a7eaaee3d8a2c218de5/85449877559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e95ea5d486---guremozexima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarkhigh72.com/clients/3/34/34275c7d49a174b5f6cf03bf5966da6c/File/33630164348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/fozuwano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70cedf5f656fe48a7c66a90ae02420a6/75150306551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938dce59c21363ad56c0e5674e834275/tepojoxikuxudise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/wijadasepumizafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/30081319253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889044210387cb73e53cee3d29eb1d2b/65369505693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/44698835957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/7094346030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776e53f1721---vomisurijemupojojexavepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64cb8bf71b3bbd389fbe88f54e900542/jabemezupusutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/52786705903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611afe3d83607---1249648268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daikinhbac.com/upload/files/perufelasabamapupepinotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62uu1nsja022svtv6hb0nll1q5/42417766023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750cb2b4679---vugunejonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/bujamuwepegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/75798791763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=food+business+introductionPDF 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_off0000f741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF741 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F53 16956 bytes
SHA-256: b7912f079b1f1bcedde4e451eaea0005535ea0d72f2a51d3c8459b413d8ce4a8
font_02_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 9a64611999d010245501c8509b93b8276de28a8a0b48d8428fb9696ddc7cdd92