Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34cc5a54fc43ec02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bd9d87b2cc4fa6a42b3ed0f39234785b SHA-1: 03f828031560b102f6a3dfc5d4e6e47e3103f750 SHA-256: 34cc5a54fc43ec022b409b13959e8f38d7df17c1892bc0197dc16162740daf96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the phishing/trojan detection points towards an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish credentials.

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 https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekuferupel.pdf
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621367607.pdf
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/93500286394.pdf
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/topelawasujomaw.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ad3081b5e---beves.pdf
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/18537205820.pdf
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210807_1C010E998AEEA6F5.pdf
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3po0i8lu4ovrpdd84v8f0i39p4/vajin.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e02c902f19c---26247470916.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/xapuletanozet.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094284784d49---dowitadalanodem.pdf
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/17159766463.pdf
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/99168681403.pdf
    • http://orhs86reunion.com/clients/6/67/6744625166a0df26c7abb40948833271/File/51471614876.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719933f2c00782906ee81193ee75f394/kovofaposodusoj.pdf
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/sekek.pdf
    • http://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/40697870545.pdf
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/79596067518.pdf
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijomizopigano.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4728191cb026a42f39a22f9e0610fd1/lotev.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6j933r1qb1us2b5cchuu74e65/tuwukolovibo.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c51f78c8f---90047565915.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34edccbb6b20d617fdc34b7445412a02/8698172591.pdf
    • https://rawoctane.com/uploads/file/sajivilitikinovenot.pdf
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/7220580946.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+un+codon+y+anticodon+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6CA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cedc.bin
34ed7d9317bff57bafabaa8926fb045de99ce4c6fa77a16a358da84b8deb1cd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEDC 15104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin
94e92e665cd929ec280fded787cf7a5e955f07dd3d4d0493bb80942e03cdf0da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 10740 bytes