Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c34022b53f488796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-29 02:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6e11f67de73e2eaf5e13727de8c3a5ed SHA-1: f4c18e4bd35bfbf777eb8cee8b7ebe5365c5ea96 SHA-256: c34022b53f4887962f729807887c9adcf7c0562e57c178e14abda27d7d2e9116
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage trusted-looking domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lotedatisatuwogawujokosox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/xofugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nf0kb1hae8llstf7fjme6gcsa/jiwefelovizafura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oktatas-konyveles.hu/term_extr/files/wojiwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/25925555705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/48167437634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c5bf4184cf5289d5b485e170f78e2c/gitojelafuzediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurvamartin.com/userfiles/file/moxodugilopuxepigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramilovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/vepuzunodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e85700416c---bozimizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenhquangcao.vn/uploads/files/wunemegajomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/43029773275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/sopuzunavape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofukigitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/78757832519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/kijikatobiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/wuviravubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siemreaptraveltours.com/userfiles/file/77261266595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/jodizavazanatasefeziwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/xegutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtuae.com/uploads/file/zaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/36454702630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sin+and+cos+rules+for+trianglesPDF 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_off0000b02d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB02D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c83f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83F 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 97c1cea8650d43d9d24d07907b9924f94673bae4b370cef1d65f2013374acb6b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F3 10824 bytes
SHA-256: fb1256d69a1acda38378a28f6546fc025191f006eba56e2cc117201a346c48e9