Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d342d81093d0f3b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 14:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3813b52747837bb72ce71411e39ad9e7 SHA-1: 8e1037ed552ab696e91f4b7ca54592f2ffb30213 SHA-256: d342d81093d0f3b759e9d14a53486e22c1658c681de70fbafdfaefc47f26060e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt at SEO manipulation to attract unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+economics+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/72644830813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b5b7fdd0---xekenokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/bewigiboxozurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db5ce5b348---nuregekirusudulone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5189aa9f507dd6dadd607e151fa841eb/zebotagebadewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsboacermaig5ceci0kqifg68e/todabonifenobodavotolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c5eb456a3---vikutefevunaropulipedugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff091074b36b454566cd88af76a7dbb2/88061797223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/roxekipawegunozuxobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/56286094339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlaskvartir.ua/data/uploads/files/dejonikibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/87124179418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/datubunaxapizoligurokozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ti4gp4fivos7r0fkgotfor09/disebepatojebiniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611762907585f---zirugokumerinurapusifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cf39785ef9e80678b1974466454d93/55296937757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqr9sm92og7g1a8hu4i808l4q3/dawudigebowibobagezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fa36e025c---64671551958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/zidulepevifakiximikanudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icbiz.ru/userfiles/file/jazukijosisujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/90889281867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h75acj5mgl9shru5udbrdko7tf/topimilisisiputumiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barexkft.hu/userfiles/file/61656907733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D8 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 00b82961eec2c24eaca2e72a43d276f5ab0e0cac478bf22a1b9747d88cc65768
font_01_sfnt_off00010d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001258d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258D 11044 bytes
SHA-256: f2c7bfa223135ff3dba9f0b9420f17e7b67f95c64baef10461868f4ca76c74c3