Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34ad76a8fa8c43be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 19:28:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 38b0275e4ea7282f543e4a7aaa470a1b SHA-1: 6851d33a16ab1aafada32eefc6a851ff65ae3716 SHA-256: 34ad76a8fa8c43be21291db5c72e2d8b9f4da73607bf53efa58575c91cf29311
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a book summary, likely intended to trick users into clicking malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+girl+who+can+ama+ata+aidoo+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be21a037846507a7459dca875aeb44d5/nabejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c149b840d0---55643011311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfa893690f---49883371075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/vulikubepexamoxisogised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/30042362737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v64uv4v2t5cct99trgmgh67s87/dopikotozewemutuwuzijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/80921999602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/66266768466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/vajikunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed3647abf104609dc803d573d565d31/32411766974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef2ce35f6---balaxinawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93bcafff9a4d1f519696298446ba68df/winodopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/xowebevojuxiwebafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mslanmcac7mu68nnqtkm7a34vd/zuwisejefezasarevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54500c50d743eac83917c8814d8d52db/xupomonupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F6 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 000a1c3ca4d0b28b1581ab5735e92e610c8d7ca25f90a2b5f513abc3ab40f6fa
font_01_sfnt_off00011793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11793 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 66bea9b90fd41111fa4007df8e7b3d18f90a70df99ec976e1d00754343787e23