Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c34102dcdf5106dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:09:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7a1122efa25afe7a82210468531e36df SHA-1: bdab19dc429311669aec73d91c1b9570ea0a7847 SHA-256: c34102dcdf5106dc574bd2db06317c1e6693a1d8a360d2f192deeccaab60cf4a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The 'Clipboard command execution lure' heuristic strongly suggests the document instructs the user to copy and paste commands into a shell, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cdfc312b65d474b1cb73b1e03afd47d/47077134819.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/84918635615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d379b7cc98---kepalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/meserubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/86507421341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/33801424400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607871640e625---xurukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photonart.nl/phpcmsys/file/56371472685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c12ba8f63---34895515485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/43995331423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/84808526771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/te98skh3sekmvai3d9toa4qhs6/buwemikegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/vifisopadovikipigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/81700934301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fde9d8d7d2cd6202033dff7e8ad3d955/47458283559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/rifujavufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomokofemerafomogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thechoose.it/file/46198135290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3497dcbdbb0822911116b79312c4d6e/jaxupuramuwoketaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/razareleduligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0861d0b12c601b5fca4f1730752277f/wadufofidezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3c092700---70690366190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/32500048416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jefimubumefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802592517b0---basimuropubapuwijoridij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=react+native+toast+messagePDF 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_off00011b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8E 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 5c956d57f994243c936ec29edd766d8654b344d786549a070e34007e4f2b39b6
font_01_sfnt_off00014c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16488 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 55dde6c93989dca9501a421f76e58ea5576e8cc3a334bae99ae0bfbfdcda9570