Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f34be28210c96db3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-10-08 09:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d38854e0c4becc9d9a2043b8380b0624 SHA-1: 9d645e3873ef1afe3f5d6759fa965c47ddf0d283 SHA-256: f34be28210c96db3cfc39591d2238069eb4a93c4278f75018f2196c0db5ff6b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=common+4+letter+words PDF link annotation
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369ea4868f5---sajebupilowadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/9524369269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/10821864247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/xebagowulurigapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/vizebomeridudisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22740232726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202109140605329638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/rituxuposarejotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/petati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/83555914649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupiwanevekulirexedapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.nl/file/42067185767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c79d4d8685---jibofapenalufitamutigeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/kevuzera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/venowojukazijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cada67b93f---bozikobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/83475259340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/zojenawodenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/fitegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berivukemokifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtr.mdrap.ro/fckeditor/uploads/file/72009572690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210907101630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36436795030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/libunasularusipu.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_off0000daf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF5 10352 bytes
SHA-256: d9c3c860b4bea30619de01879ded4845342a0b13fa10d8afa13916004bbeaf15
font_01_sfnt_off0000f26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26D 19200 bytes
SHA-256: 2a90a7a68733804acc3ada9ca244b85449a44f9dc82aa4792bfd7aee0669f50b
font_02_sfnt_off0001240c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1