Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e34f38197a12806c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:31:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fee1f938d90b02a0219c39706d319244 SHA-1: 807dbe1b7e23c86c79400cfe779db34306266609 SHA-256: e34f38197a12806cc3d70d5f2e18601cbd12c5efb1e1daf84090fbad27bf3dd2
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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/60256155911.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/denaduwobokilutatefiperod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.pt/images/file/mopomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/9147446400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakowska98.com/zdjecia/fck/file/lejesixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gabedilaluxedebafavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef5182ec8581caeda26c09c7f351a0f/3497326639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/nezaxovekalila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/35035075454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109141900245243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19287933870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/ketawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/33044760255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/62711534655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210906224933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajmjsjp7l91hrifvod769monhj/torewuvuxileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/2021918118327504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99308225755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210908_123108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656def6036f28c509aea0995d05fe559/35877657738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/berudinudewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=queen+of+hearts+movie+2019+online+freePDF 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_off0000b775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB775 17644 bytes
SHA-256: d61b858ae5c28ed2737c209b1ab1841f7c6c1efe0356c6e0c888e9d26a906f94
font_01_sfnt_off0000e462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC79 11164 bytes
SHA-256: bc84e1bc6a9f1fef16fce0e6498fa888c2c3a2db23546686d5043758aa0ebb40