Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34c31587e6af3805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d6115b43a335e1903324bbcfb90df4f SHA-1: 6e8f6be1459afb412b90919c6bdee5f38ca00ad8 SHA-256: 34c31587e6af38052c80e0a6a2802272819d9b48baef1c746fb9aec278c3bc27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the presence of numerous links suggests a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+cafe+game+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/jovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb25900d110c2101a8e087d16dca0d3/9481202685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/32782907078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/45277342154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/52240497071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928cf403974c25cd7faf54374286481a/54877738313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/sarerupeminuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/favagofutivekiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/kevizisapuzubetixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/33577393502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a3e2f2aa---46019161618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i431raiahviibt98aave53cq57/92569044232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/15885153819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cbfc4cbeeeba2b68c80f0af18781dd9/luzokenifitumupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/86304732081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5f8f60a28---moredubudixonokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078687899dae---tulukepekovopuvaxafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea6d182613---vazefujekipotoxemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b45e5ea8d7---dawuxafujujesasofapewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b2deb11a6d6f5b755b14743da511e0c/83637212652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvanutemalebe.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_off0000f03d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001084f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084F 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 48b72a04a4d77c1b84006842d834c760ef6431676af3b134b07d22be9870b1cc
font_02_sfnt_off00013478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13478 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 3428aee4a3124bcab569a4c84663f922937dad3ae2742f41b546ddc96983ab85