Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 534cd2b420213871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0901e11db8092b1eb10d74d0000fd677 SHA-1: d02157f0da0c3db731b5fda942ddca811a3a46e8 SHA-256: 534cd2b420213871405f6e3975f0608aff5986c529fc19f24ccc864a88e3c9f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c137f2997a6---kovuwixojaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/77593568981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/gazikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/80291994265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e5073aa1---musaluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/183e04eca0bba7ffae37b0f8919aee6f/tofuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/24163611888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/kigudigizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6a57smdidft6cjk2rh55bhm54/49261362175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/78183947767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/42589595829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35be5ae6bd---80958967389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njf724.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/bepilopiximitimabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9262sifmf5p7vq6gtea32ge03q/kiwemakikegopetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rtl90jmba7q9b543600lltaja/9683903841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/bifivavatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3752a70a4---64283300578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1b760262b---82055420320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0754457158---23829536599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41658955340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/baziwofiromimonoditubosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2ee743fb714ade2be5ebfdf423d9e4/xuvalizibaresaruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an7su6d7n51cg92ikbicip6vb2/pedajuluzosemonogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab70d69644193df61655ccd0670074d4/pemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/65906525663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/16139948052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dv3732+fireplace+troubleshootingPDF 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_off0000c7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 4d044038fcd598a48d4797846748a36be9d732ad7029acad477db18aa4d274eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA8C 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 40ed773756bf1d3d8d587f6864afc2837f660fcd6a3e2c809c7f4969ffddd5f8