Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34b40398063349dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.2 KB Created: 2021-06-23 00:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 14852bf6f5bd7272ecdf353f83388fa9 SHA-1: 7e60c8e9e161699dc8ccef10dbe5945ff0eaf58d SHA-256: 34b40398063349dd33bbb9d9538e67f2000be8af08d8fae82f0a4d8b67b53c15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'papers with solutions', indicating a lure to academic or technical content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/gikijawodawiwesegeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/26606471925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/mafazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb03344afc---bamideradabinofusezilivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49522085fb3ed39106f0b23a79cc4c60/80738485547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/217ea228a9dbe96cf9e4530c8669dd12/78232341405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/90960499478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de570586e5---sexagawaruwuvozudaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/dazojivamevitumufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e431f233dcbbcf97090eed928ca71362/darebuvelibijuzobonedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/27452824277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.vn/uploads/files/71068653215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b4to1q2ko60so1lnt730j509/tejipopovofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6797ae5c7a620387c148eee91275e51/zigafajudolerid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/josebuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5mr23rkhj1jrdc3aa3cpsdmjg/99771084407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=gate+previous+year+papers+with+solutionsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD3A 5192 bytes
SHA-256: efb48fcb018a8d650297482ad6411709b0371bc71def068cad086fb97a210192
font_01_sfnt_off0000cefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFC 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 71f14a5c531d9f2702ac4eeec285a77debc27fc2cb171426646fefbcfab52cc0