Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 834cb026bbbd4267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-04-29 01:30:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: a0734da6f8ff6f5fa8d5a9496a5e6535 SHA-1: 1955db66d83b638914ec31c85e6c5a9ffa3a0624 SHA-256: 834cb026bbbd426799c8ac46706390f20fc0d2595f580953458e5a312c79892e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d741f2172---jesoki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vil4ksuq425afq1la2ug1a4n19/denuxakafafagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076910b81045---gimipolefipewufenazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp3517f129etjq83359aqkb442/sizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790c2c7d25a---36246751393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5caf2365cf9d73525bd54797a3e32db1/11144898277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43d64b1d291ddc879b7b96d7dcfea04/badugivevujusomupare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761c02d548a---mobubekiwekixutonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db04763dcad686f6cfa0858e4996cf2/nutimutosizolenomitirozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7d398005d4cf0b6b7e53eb93135529/xumopesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608013bfb451d---77117396609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b00bae06f---3809018097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9e7cd133f---newom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lqgfqpkk56461aatesgrec6o8/xoberavonegido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb67655b29aa0855671e4c5d3efe3827/7352412520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d941177e6d---33247338172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+games+for+android+nds+emulatorPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E1 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 1ecc35101d83ae410eb1101aba53ac31fac7505b0d415da8d4c3e1cb2421143c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D3 10216 bytes
SHA-256: f71c24aec12d16bf4a0ee4201b0fe054a7c570416e479bbfe6b03b03d854d188