Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b034040d2b911ef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7850d2b7b18efa4b5fc9f1843a079e7e SHA-1: ef5e14364cd43b7a8e1ca1cde466a57af4373af6 SHA-256: b034040d2b911ef3e92fe475d5237cb34abb52a7c08a9f6dcc61bfafe9d61300
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5th+grade+summarizing+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/58737431372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/jerurodazapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/75670711271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/50844022145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsuathientu.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zagawukewibozigosimobaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/72605797468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f614430f0---xatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jineguwiwuxolose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzumigirojavives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72841952227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/50237459405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/barakapimemetegokowemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/rexexasuwibexalepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607822f288dbe---26708200405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/puvidobapunitofevunisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda21092845868793598978e5f3335eb/gukaxabovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/53170152116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/67621170975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/dukilezonefosusafigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/31824014315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/keruxadojaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents//files/70387157559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baad27e0c97---37418676270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/14894465988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/mebuwurojifavujojaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/97496649398.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_off0000c599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC599 11024 bytes
SHA-256: f612caaa2b2dd2553559be6bab80cff6f9df68a858e92a15bf66247ef393753d
font_01_sfnt_off0000def8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF8 16300 bytes
SHA-256: ed1696c8faa1b359cc9c80c8a435f1e9787e20d4f275b32c5970602d34ef891c
font_02_sfnt_off0001088e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1