Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca34bc18bbcd0a95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: da0aeb4836b8ead5cae78c40fb30f19a SHA-1: da64eac0b9e25da368b179b37c3ace186398ba0c SHA-256: ca34bc18bbcd0a9593076aded35c47e31d4667c145910cc3b1bbb510cbcc04ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/27949547458.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lmetinternationalschool.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84247469456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/gafepiwogivikelepewamalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/27301163407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonubezuloxabisemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/89122749430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/kojowuvobuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/57203820091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/98303313273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065e6504bd---bezeliliremuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/8468252877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/59312243724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/powitoxabubarurujigameju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelpour100voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/72512774359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef407a5c31---wuwibuxefepibowalefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75321746450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/batow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/29995001871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/9877215664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/5401712697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137695011ad5---gotuwuwewimovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7u3inkpfj841fdl5t0s0ui9e23/rogebovisarigukuxixamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=college+reading+and+writing+skills+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_off0000b88f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB88F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A6 10884 bytes
SHA-256: fd20d931bce62bdf9d32daa9d53f8f5a5d92da20d88be48f524d79b196cd1fe8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CF 15744 bytes
SHA-256: 4b50ad155bc7626feee971a22e0c8ce4980e5c764076982fe4f3ada50c93164e