Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b34ac233ed40db3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2f4f3779f831fc7b3da21591e086bb2f SHA-1: 018d9b586075f34dbb709418e4439a52ae9a43e0 SHA-256: b34ac233ed40db3a30a58aec18de7591651ddd467634585808089fedca727060
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users through a chain of links, likely leading to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/281345354018.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832d8e81f1---75905299788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/mopepopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/mavujenedupijaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouqjopujmp1g8bfi12lma5n6ka/dularaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7eb80b6dbc96eac5218eb3f54710b49/65117686536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/56224787958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1132e1c290f03daf33ac8a60495078a0/fimilifemusozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe67d6eade4---82766865105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/zamokuwazemiderime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/13216330346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/nuwexararuwimomeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hos5dbevd280c8r4hrp155npv3/55996290086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc67848df2---14294516579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/xofujivexikasenuziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2d92b3b95---siwuzonudematugene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fc4306bb9ee67f561f72faae9f0a1f8/buzuribaregeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed90cfbf4acc975a68260024775e3d26/xuwekeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qodnkikuhlet7es4qoa367nf2/80841992236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/37168858417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec5acdc568---lawogepelapuwifuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/74027658229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca5e4d74d19b28443e864f0466d78d5/xezobifulinevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/27978972148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/59903568599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=empirical+and+molecular+formula+quiz+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_off0000c774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC774 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF86 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 55f74a14f85fd229dac0c8b4d9578522a6811e428ffc7d44ef891c24ec852bd8
font_02_sfnt_off00010b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B58 10804 bytes
SHA-256: c0878b070f1e052b58762f95a63945498a8c8428e587ee5c05bf977be29e1525