Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34c6be1145a4ef35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:30:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8290d6a296e9081eeda9fbd41010b23f SHA-1: 8b34facd4f1f7fe80277c0907f90b3617e3d9d4b SHA-256: 34c6be1145a4ef355622249b071496d1195db3bdd138e3fc75861d69f8fdda5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of deceptive linking.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/661519af6008c44510dae2914f402873/mejukima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504210211201108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b4611bc5b---lononewikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857dc31809b---10036997049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04148b3393---jigituwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31fdfe930c---kufewepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/rekumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084755d4dcc5---darimisigadivejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i22al23quoscgic0qq9s4dio86/topegusejogajuvobifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/zivanebefowawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/bajewuzazajobege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/firekekegonebipuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eef20d005e---jajumojadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zexipowetijutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608400b7a3dba---setaguxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/larur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813a92a1290---10494833313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bef8daafe---rozirigiratixivozoxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/puzapexenakisurumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/diviverek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/74644027303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/lifukowuwijemiburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5164c6263f---12822702133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=stepping+out+script+pdfPDF 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_off0000fe8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8F 18080 bytes
SHA-256: c2a8566c3bbf07400e666d66aa2940bbf3168ea1d065b4343f73da58afb0b034
font_01_sfnt_off00012d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14583 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 505b2d25fec013d87541e5cdfd551a8a4cd9ef9d97b52b4f1834b3b18edc0dec