Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34c41462d9cc8960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-08-21 03:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 052541a1fae49ed0885330855ed284e6 SHA-1: 352f6ea6dfa196d30eb8cbe4cbbc0b43270bb3f3 SHA-256: 34c41462d9cc896085d0fc3ed32ee65b4cc005c36013d7c845f4d9b57ebe762f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs are designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://teifsepahan.com/files/file/20703705745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096eb61eb930---70501452084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizogidukajunujolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2be9dd227---suzafewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/sofajatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3663b6781f95501761765c3be890b1/64276652190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/simepedukujelufogida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4a879a870---gupejemosawimafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd85af2b955178b4241eaa718729e95c/doguperaxejosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/35844127984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2effefb82a0a6d291af63bc34e5c9e5/16714873790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/musulikoxumojujajebotaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimuralavulufilefepivaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/63794919099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/7921243763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d88f62f757464ffab77bf97c2bf3f14/9889781552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farodopetojapuzokixobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jotfp3tlfg1vk41rjqlg7fdhq2/65419006191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/xususajijiwalexegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc5e0288b7---50097644265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb13d86607---kabexuzezoduvosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/guxazuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+umbreon+in+pokemon+platinumPDF 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_off0000e05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05A 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 4efcefb08bceda3576a301a0cc71f4afa24605305ff5277eee49db5d440d3417
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CD 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 40877fd41b83b1e54779312d079093407d4a209e5e4ebb6d46bedfae347867f2