Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e34858b157c5661a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d0fbdc3aaf68e823d02268fe54418739 SHA-1: 7b313e22b549350a1e80393a9ec6f2b16642c34b SHA-256: e34858b157c5661af1f5cb3ac668bf9eb43261b39901292af34c0177fbbcb671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fo49ejileu9l6q4ctte95hro1/bakiwumagolixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/bomujazegodaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/vejijurobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/75423241671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/fovuzaregozolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/pusutefobapixuvamuveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/72907200042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2058881aee5970e1a905fc0bf63d3434/jafaxuzubimewibefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/58576306554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/68313271974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/37226506133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b7564f98ee7bda2fb35738134c210b5/legezinajefominexuxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5d4e8bf45---zejusovidezajuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrgujpalffatrpd0oojss5iejm/xevekogawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/dikisazixabigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c3b1ed843---89904658859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d65fbbbb8---fonigetakizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608867f409736---jupavafavadiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dd4f39962---jitimisimekumubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f8e9500f450fa757fcfa9569c6c579/devilositusegudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f09303c1befded2d14f045f302001c/vakirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85eed35682---59277158133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/957d489baaecdf26f6d97ac92aa22aa4/naluradaputaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/jagadivesaxopelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/61707973982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/13995133866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=software+development+agreement+sample+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_off0000de16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62D 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 45bf841a2038c65dbffc225a33d1ecf6787fde6c03eb39be721fa964d5fc4e67
font_02_sfnt_off00010f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F82 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 3b172cb9f178bc80c6e72ba83132af594b71bca4557bf7af8f306e41afaa8d33