Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d347861161aeea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: edd9ec47a38a0df84f9fc9d6e179bc06 SHA-1: 0eefdc48034186a9ac7d3da6389d43293226c323 SHA-256: 34d347861161aeea6aae08d4004da22f42199d3cb2e93bebadb0dc1aa2f3c10d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://tuecpa.com/file_media/file_image/file/panadevizakovinubon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/6123517777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d70ab3b28689eb07dcc02076d8eb6f3f/roxagijevibefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artinterior.bg/userfiles/file/gotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139be1880ece---2896724549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38514765810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/52815587529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/naxezaxege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvivitugifuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109141226341106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/jubuwasomiramumaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/13768062487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/mijitekozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/kuvemisodumuriduwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/57100307331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/73611436318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bdef6a7ae---10505089326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/56769051162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/54070630959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/5353417352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/63832261204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/dakiximoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magiepourenfants.com/images/mediamanager/file/84693174965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/47990652375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9ff0db10da662627b39c0d755334cc/4164463826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/99163442774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+screenshot+on+android+7PDF 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_off0000e404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE404 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 5542f578d8adab570d0a6e7e1570a441f03cbd5acd9a3ff322f91c8113be68be
font_01_sfnt_off0001158f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA6 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 206781103286742e0fe4d9f19a89cc9141424295cb009b4e671a351a4504659c