Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f867e5dbef0f4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6edea7c81194e592e41b25225b6c3852 SHA-1: 4f45463e71b5fb8a9b0a43cdc47e66eea9e48f1a SHA-256: 34f867e5dbef0f4d3c34b8cfdd530d8447c02921ee826ca74a7660cb03f5b7f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML classification strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+luca+2021+online+free+123movies
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346706d1674---23242139895.pdf
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/gowofabipadododowufaduxoj.pdf
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/29368005366.pdf
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/tapuwinonoturuse.pdf
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/kejovezamaza.pdf
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powake.pdf
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/54150829881.pdf
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/53471480787.pdf
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6473404941.pdf
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/80472888083.pdf
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupewoxotigoz.pdf
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/92691042974.pdf
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/53367342003.pdf
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/tipomavipuxonulenijoki.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6d00bc005---6007103038.pdf
    • https://petpetmates.com/files/editor/file/vowagovereseterexeze.pdf
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/pejonegiriniwapukipol.pdf
    • http://tugrabilgisayar.net/resimler/files/82019208106.pdf
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/kolisuvalanizugisejavuv.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422ebdb78b3---telubiz.pdf
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/7853741363.pdf
    • http://wish-pharma.com/upload/files/68823454323.pdf
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/86853700248.pdf
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92375650837.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_off0000f8ef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011106.bin
e58cf3bc1bdef6c2ff9cdce4b3934c23bfbdf77420a09dd4797e99d66ad25395
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11106 11228 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4e.bin
a966e40c61606a5d07761063479d598bf344b04613d0ba524b6982c6261fa111
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4E 20232 bytes