Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f7af578aa707a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cdf8b2179247213b41a6389df5f0fcb1 SHA-1: 8184623d060515c6dfc81d1b41059d902a66b0c8 SHA-256: 34f7af578aa707a7fdbe70a3ed2033a0fe19a901bbfbb40bba7642cea7e8c91e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, specifically WordPress uploads. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c990f3250---12084189623.pdf
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53679575733.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c65269472---vasemadifuparinomowa.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824eb8192af---defifuzozobafutajuji.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dd3a36ea9952fb5347d66486565d74/neferewuzewo.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5c2ee76be74cbf52bfbc9a7d17e924/dofetonusanopanevotu.pdf
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/89888036650.pdf
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/guzoruwuwagadagagirarew.pdf
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/505878149.pdf
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/gowoga.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376c7158fc2da9d64c161677d078632c/57480920945.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d39c64f4---revijukepe.pdf
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/71513903094.pdf
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a59002614516e881ac8eaeaea5e2375/44550949486.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo417k2ont3jt67kj3i1pa6o3t/sexenuvimipanotimotom.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e838274bb2ff61876e9dd38b169d06/kuman.pdf
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/60199337195.pdf
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/99214797534.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh3p0omg9h7fbhak8fppn1fb6m/xikipedozikegugir.pdf
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qup68qimpe4ueuvit4k7r33055/mepunesijebabobuleruki.pdf
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otv993576hm3pcrkariije9aq6/84948056900.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bootstrap+classes+cheat+sheet
    • 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_off00013411.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13411 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014c23.bin
7c9a6625f85541f7373b001c2bcb617b7c9e3bb0329fb48a4963c7567c8e26f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C23 18356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017ca6.bin
ad26db10876568d5c1b4ed9a2d016ff436815fc5cbdb4c2d145dbf4101020978
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CA6 10328 bytes