Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34dc3c9d92e6da63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9a98c8600912eb293ca022a486303f6d SHA-1: 39e6de00603c94d6330a7813ca458da605e8c504 SHA-256: 34dc3c9d92e6da63653f7021d6a62c42c393726cbcc7c5283e4713e3593e4fcf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to disposable hosting sites, many of which are disguised as PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious payloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://memphiscentral1969.com/clients/865565/File/vojajedoxebanujovusukete.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/75645509863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/88044497536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6ae930bc223acc7ee02ec581e354da/fevowamamupajudaduneginaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/nevarutosufikurixivafufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m51kj8rrnvdvglj957hkkhaku4/58555472067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/samugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/bibuvonujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/faxopeguvebopatilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eef1ecec55---pimewedijusazajobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/45585585787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/39699342002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d89c1dd3a7---virigizonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/kisejogudewalovotuvomozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zelolomegevadadufoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/jajoruluxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/lozunozerudiwijorotagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478a80352708ef9fb1d4000b5267394c/10246870865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd22d34d3---13686921369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99822123ea95508255d22035fd89a684/71078177267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/kekirijabubizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to1er6ngueo491v4fr402vm415/54450381343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5478641ab2c5587adf44d6d23c693c32/wuvugawunamojofexaxuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd9f4f0ee---52374264436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/guraxanada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+user+manual+for+iphone+xrPDF 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_off0000daeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FD 18508 bytes
SHA-256: 05d93f9af93b33629f8dcfb24094eb456d9360fbb4f65e8c2c4209d9cb4ca4db
font_02_sfnt_off000122b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B5 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 74cf50bfbb1cf4d176e4f302c1414601cf676042e03e6a8df81013f5808ad2d2