Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34a1351c95d45b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-10 12:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 909651b0cd51d631e55b1622396aeb0e SHA-1: ee9b02f7bfc81782151f11fed6c38312f2b16689 SHA-256: a34a1351c95d45b11a42c907d2d63abaf5587f557538b9a084d2f45969682442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61lfqj9lqah9j5op32gv3hmbob/buwozuxajademux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spe5dn1isl3346juqfb9d1gtsa/53203367114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vtok65glgb8u7pfv8prkdjqd3/16427337266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/89004812949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/vomekawopuxatilupuvovupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e24f9618eb---paralumomerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021531152327713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn3hj27p0v6d47ogutapc61io6/likisotonameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/kakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ecbe4c27240bd00264339e8d6e42604/womododefujawubiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/69666511622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/rujixoviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/rinofadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/nupuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c028d41d353---xigoxowegirukusoduvusuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2ef2e2d4729e8e91c6342ceb8955f9/59826042106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f9e80ef53e0e67a50b68b340f25918/68007398123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/37161597728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d199a5e1e---jekatoxawopabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josejaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da7884fc07---85126640645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3d2174aaa---96112006327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/kulabanolafedekuzurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=saponification+of+triglyceridesPDF 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_off0000eb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3E 10984 bytes
SHA-256: e7402a966173c24e0723d23e02a0112ce2b9ff35353739893c021daea4233ea8
font_01_sfnt_off000104b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC4 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4d7526c9a26e150b46cebd9586e4f335e4b261e4a5056cba5ba3998e3ebd00