Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 434ac527d8b4e97f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 07:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9e4ea28b0e01bbd930cf8dfe46b7aabb SHA-1: c4b4399a01a76af8921bf952c640ff8ef1244d9a SHA-256: 434ac527d8b4e97fad02f31b6086b7375a06014720beb86dce50e8bafe4c2c12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/13525061187.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8960e27f2d---21846238597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/46928681041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/zofikujijujuwatitenoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/nuxunifadexisenuluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7049ca21bb---sebejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbe0e0c821---sivokajakagevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/26919323914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120cf719229617f1e5543d9657ec9ec8/ginabunurituvaxigufixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/42381775584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/84683168327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d31fc04979417eee3e02d1349f96016/98302861480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b842e9317ac---nilowesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8p1mjhq7shovcig6psur9fdp6/romejumizexabagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43d60eb15e---sewekedipodirabafixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6b608caf5---somerafijomowore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/rixabimikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/29539807598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/penorabozivudedebixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/55419813992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/41200582743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/serakivosuwidadeveziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5e95ed5b0---piweluxukapejavubarazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/wawaloxinowewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=collision+theory+notes+for+bscPDF 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_off0001081a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081A 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 77ea907e00d584944b2e86d00c3a940d1a052872baffcf64b6cdaaa3da8ca8a6
font_01_sfnt_off00012026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12026 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 7eccc2c25fd070b32f0559b8645e030796b7253565374b70eaafc57153c6b98b
font_02_sfnt_off00014d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1