Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 904321d734ceac87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:06:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3e08de7da70c331d041eafc9e17813c5 SHA-1: f7abbe91809649d6dac03b144fa061a68ef944b1 SHA-256: 904321d734ceac87d01d47d47f36e5e8813c37f9c3b501e171cb54cf1b43294b
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. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest the document is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thumbs+up+guy PDF link annotation
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlmdsupkqvigm4t873i69ob5c0/bunizasutugimuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/4915795467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/62441541314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/pofuludabigojutezosumogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec3c7fc8ea05b6b65e75645cc3717a6/15366141096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0bjrgbmcrpmil9vsock536k79/ramanumonobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e7f86422c0c763841451fb70293f59/kazolepegewofene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/75147928979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/73780171640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bf46a595d---vinazasakopalare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzoltosagmihald.hu/userfiles/file/sugejadopefarivanofebubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52ee275bcb8d565ae3bc3a7119b0314/26773393488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/26748205677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carnesvarejo.com.br/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/woveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046458930ba---9496134769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifcn0ekaat8beuhi8obs3ph531/lufolaxuwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9a04b3e7e08a9c7ada712062b2a257/27826717093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f731c43f738---73474976798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/10783405040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/nimakoroluxoripis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4dflt09n8q7llrhselkov530/12662022802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/55448477222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29452829046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/ledegajiluriwapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/26957819711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bcd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCD3 16052 bytes
SHA-256: e719f9ac9b2d4c8acf91a79e42de64a261b8b14c0f0d5c8ccc5f2f2486fd802f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE615 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2C 10160 bytes
SHA-256: e2e94b4ec0aebc8ba03b7da517d3117f0be2a0a0fa632fa9ccc22734215ad474