Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f34b828e32784995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-10-06 04:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ac998b452f47eaac88fabe9528afa7d8 SHA-1: b786bc3abeb696e5e19067a8649bfa9b0cea1f88 SHA-256: f34b828e327849959c397383ba13163d28ca913cb15004d346bf76bd76ae90c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+sun+has+long+been+set+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18be7e0152f0a6b5feee0552964521a/2994265948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/31315848663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/56816183941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/17964509661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup1.com/contents/files/lepariwajamisoniwofileli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/wavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/zojod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6437858ff6479b7e0966f72146c26a/75327265012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/64931849434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/40584441608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/92829490364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protum.se/file/32894981152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819ca439453a45fbf1095f1f0fe63147/6475223347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326e3da4d29---gigijazosimibekisoninilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/nunakofosufeboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takijejado.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_off0000dec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC6 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 23a078f137b5e94e65e5fd05d98df754cec1c5ee3bd19df332662d8aa9cc91e4
font_01_sfnt_off00010e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E02 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 2af69b63d92d3d3a12b4ebbf23919984f4652ae6ab011e33dbaa7db16b82b793
font_02_sfnt_off000126e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1