Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34cc149f0986625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-14 15:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8fe7fcd89a61c7a033d89972357bfa3e SHA-1: cd9dd75e6e55378e1619ecfac60501986104eb13 SHA-256: a34cc149f0986625f3b02682225d42a73ec387cd11edd34f4a430a5ade921e37
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download a payload. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/52084765200.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oicg066k6nlof26agsmm1cro1/71308882029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/23246801293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/33808871153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilybarnes.com/DEVELOPMENT/VERSIONED/emilybarnes/trunk/sites/default/files/file/81503086923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/31304435871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/dijurazafemulusazonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871ca886d66---bugemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/xelolilepetobupizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/megumegizimibibane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/munedepemokukinamuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210601_222952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/nixaguzejiriwasokikiluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixatitexebirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718482f099b---ximanilagutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a789d963afcd58840f4d9d2f079664/dudidizezavexoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutunuvisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mqskin.com/luutru/files/91564409901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ff1477697---nugejeviganufuzezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/kewufilegasuzipuluxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/49727068200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e82ae7bfd2e4a2e2610d7e9b012154/4655070031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/77616463679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/91728047448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/lixulopibokovekazuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=h%C3%A9ctor+p%C3%A9rez+montiel+%282006%29.+f%C3%ADsica+general+publicaciones+culturalPDF 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_off0000ebe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 77fd00b76855b7e573e5b8fa8f8f6bd1c1c6c78c3c21ceadfd1a2338e42978e9
font_01_sfnt_off00011e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5E 11964 bytes
SHA-256: 9e286986f8b04cd29fc4f530e61a9f195fbad156b4d83d1e8c8bbe9b1b662d2c
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1