Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d3b9a29f6a65f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:22:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab76d2c12f6829125adb5f78be497e07 SHA-1: 6d83bdff5f56ab71e21c8af36e2cae750c86d048 SHA-256: 34d3b9a29f6a65f1e86b01be6e1c60d86eb1760b25b60599dc5813554cbd58f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking malicious links, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anthony+kenny+a+brief+history+of+western+philosophy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fupt8hkg4l4409c2j6bup0kpd5/36373021372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf75j0rg5uqancav2ea9cr9s30/62394019570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/lofavupupugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24dfa85cce7b0cbb1e4f79821551bb26/gutalatevufifujovaxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/penarisirutula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dee0ad5191bc68f5a4128eec90b54cc5/68311221995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnificenttreks.com/userfiles/file/31930424627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simpli.ie/survey/userfiles/files/zazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3bcca4d8a---11192843923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903eaa809ea---64450370739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/zidosumowawibevevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/jizazogobogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3c4u35ibjaphk14m9oigruhb/25912579489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210807123014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3972c1a864c1a24a2ac267b124e4ed9/mizuneren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldd5h9jegg6s6c5ighlscokti6/7447051092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b0f90a6cd---61114685427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs-nippon-cp.com/mailmagazine/upload/files/lagunetusivawutezadufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/konupewogoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97592934401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/22787415814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/vivirerupubugivoporamage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/72949636766.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_off0000d279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD279 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 1faf62b65bf4c15e1271a761d455fbc91e0dbef9d23a5a0cf40e3d10c604f66f
font_01_sfnt_off00010051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10051 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 9771fa57b9dc4b7e4a03d64decc2bee49ae342c72fb2f4b9cf52a42d1bfe691f
font_02_sfnt_off000119b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1