Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34a6538e6e93afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6474021e90fdbb6c4585c84bfd88b6da SHA-1: 98459407655da2e1469564d6e64a96b93dad127c SHA-256: a34a6538e6e93afe5fc039744ec38f979cce64cffbda302da4c339b325ac8675
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cinema+apk+v2 PDF link annotation
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/diwebobagezivugijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363a8940448---lipaxivadikizulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/29303884453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/80270883138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/nuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/kitoxugugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13524533604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/xodemizejotafovenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/gesabipevediwofonedaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50127071117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l59gv6tsonat4n81aa45u04e5/rovapuwoturapifakepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/48957763418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/mafegexajojokowavobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-08/02a853f731f4eee282c5ed9c03aa4df6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/22039467242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/76680880933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/xafikoxopaxedodunebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad49952dc9---garenexomalufuminir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/jimizirubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210902212352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwologemujotaneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfanchem.com/upload/files/nijipuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43aff135ddfb3a82f132d4c48bf2ddb9/nafewuxiwabugozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/73593755589.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_off0000f079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF079 10192 bytes
SHA-256: fea946e650dd6d1fa8bed5f24829e3cb04bf623a842dfcd4dac3854327278cb8
font_01_sfnt_off00010758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6A 18804 bytes
SHA-256: bbe78e17a9181ef5d118c8230cb8b268375fd849799b26ebb2f8aa7fa7e31279