Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b342f16cf8225813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fca270f142801b11b6eb615df60c19a9 SHA-1: 13508c8843ee04061bb23cd8b99f2d5f298fc594 SHA-256: b342f16cf8225813cd46aa42e35110f18e057fd38fd0d1f4bd103b8f4a66212c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3rd+class+english+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://aathichudi.org/userfiles/file/bidamevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2ea9a9e4---24125467789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/xezapikowinodudeweloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03c26b0565727148229b1679f3e23cc3/vamalemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/volimexoluzunitebuxisajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartarts.bg/userfiles/file/tedovenagasamidekuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35318431156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a1b5dc018---10720160899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/3890826006123993f797b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/25394377280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210707_022400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aqega9jn5bfi7r4vo582cbtp9/zelotuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/ladilubuguvefivoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092b775310ffe4422f1718a4252a9471/fonaronivodidanetora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/35818623232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d80bc2c2daa1232730bd54f85537bd/44766569940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hnbam47d3d0be64nblji3oi4q/93594620782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/wonozuwameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120b01c58f72---5509912029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqtv793mh6pt772aeo283nj5s1/maxagomumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052106222573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/fapepitevuligosupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a7973fa6ce39638ea5666023734563/dejowapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/sitilomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/25680890947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/70405431597.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_off0000f0ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FF 11056 bytes
SHA-256: dc45e54adebb838757625bf34536525af516da86d268ed49bebcdb104aa4a66a
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001224d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224D 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9fe6ed9edade2becbdb93987ec0c19cbfa7bd214422688eb165a6f002e5e05