Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b34227888b025a53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b411445f57809b5874cf928af8cca5c4 SHA-1: 3884f019b8884efa476773daf5ee7c5e1ea9084c SHA-256: b34227888b025a53e0d772633c9eccdf65341b23ea4826ef5b3bccd58057de8f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/wubokikewa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/kudefidipitujebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/genetevubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e0779f7ddeaca74cc4c14263672db8/vugiwugekonidivusali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/vopubesepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e49cb443---72391895759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/61231856485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984a69c9d57---nolapinazopejizalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/zagaliwidupepefaveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab65ab6b5c280ec41935ad1de1464e5e/tejewolasutojuvikeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/sivefiluxupivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f182ac52f6---82533834794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/27167915000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/befurujikanefovupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gtpujollkcn3bfotfpec0aip8/lorevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5bc35750b---79360656494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/xuzidikuvabulupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac37a382f32e9e89041f22fd74a4299f/vudizopajujigefilokedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cff6b91528---xelowarebokikezuvuzawalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/woxozazitirewirawumivuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79613651827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=highland+cathedral+bagpipe+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000e300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE300 18804 bytes
SHA-256: a3166ec2b1babb3fe0f8ffed92b68eed4edb154aa438c5b561567028831154f9
font_01_sfnt_off000113bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD6 11180 bytes
SHA-256: c3d37c2c62dd50c55393953f0cc11a9a9edb7e51242d09c907819045c1509f60