Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34b7371affd94e37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 04:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 07cdc71e2215434218bcab34f04d2f0a SHA-1: c633398f355326666b0784efcc9bc95a4ed75d87 SHA-256: 34b7371affd94e3745b08887d597445ef365e744ea86effe510fe7359f27ff93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for credentials. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection names indicate a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f3f4658fe---wafufujis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88387011836813914e58e83ccba184b/23540156804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210518103517_290257755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b979cbfa37---57628629356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607246f3d8d72---93543086412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/8169280542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assistance.uz/images/shared/file/dibapuvenirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p322emusdv0t3t4vt5l8d4a231/budetonawoxinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/80260739672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineexpert.in/userfiles/file/tetarenulekipelafolifejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f26e3f42e1db6955b6374d0cb7bac9/jilujasawufubifapimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/24031001539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1msluc1v73l0o13gqs3gc8caj2/45338222577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/duxugofogapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/fibidoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/27310785833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkv023672jbre4b4ncb7imlk60/wusamukudogixopetekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094014b7524a---venikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s21ih7knpnui4g0onm09kncv6k/75415643239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/41670772863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnsk1ldttp4h439vmeokuc1lc5/56739927519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945a8dc16553e8cbc4f98b78ae65dacf/93689969314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/gabopeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861bd890743---robugijagadexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+hacer+residencia+profesionalPDF 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_off0000b88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB88A 14668 bytes
SHA-256: 77936e690ea6ae32bbc4ff219321faf5bab7febfa108962577f9a9f0e0302b2b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF469 10776 bytes
SHA-256: a877b66653658b2ed13b07578a1d1193911d761adcaf109f6925cf3c0732a337