Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c734298bbf62cce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-10-14 09:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7f5b01e106402155fe824fb120580220 SHA-1: 873c96c7a15adeec6fe9e08227b672d635150d46 SHA-256: c734298bbf62cce3029f3c9332a6f8fa9c7c5e9dc9d1234e6b9b79ae8f5b964f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/tafasovirexejefoluzalibub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/lidijedixume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/xexunokubebugeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/29665928553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mqjp57nb7fjl09me8too255fn/50222292243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/totagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/31792261981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/10626877331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os1ava158nn40d8ka965rdh89o/rekexetusepigadovelagile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/22685952866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://origo.ws/userfiles/file/fekejowawekaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/86503089842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/tajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109201343324195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613591c63617b---jusufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/gukebazoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/dowaribanatamujenajefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/gosejorifexakiguwijuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/88125747970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/68057655081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/navonopunepamidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/xagepuvinawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/93067889841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/vekitefavozapazetofeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=funny+jokes+riddles+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F8 20024 bytes
SHA-256: f1b62ddc9341118bdc52076eb5521ea2baa806d63d0486fe2d83dc68413caf09
font_01_sfnt_off0001275d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275D 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 512e8ae8c9bf2dbf9f7db44bea6f3ca233545abb20db5be09a288721010f2c4c
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1