Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f34d56fc80a84cf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:57:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 879f6ed55b4b1aa96af305dd8f9e4478 SHA-1: 82f21516ffed048f9a35997c13843795c806eab8 SHA-256: f34d56fc80a84cf8113af2875d39d4c1d9db7f3487d0db9bc03cf09d1d47aa39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/94519698824.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://techcessgroups.com/userfiles/file/71323815765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/33710807058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/jimukuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61224746003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/96358410523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/74531555036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df105bdf203cfd8c68214f19c642712/32748503447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwelezewekasivasosoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83kqroj100uvpnh4orq8cb32up/10048605915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607594d3ac2de---980993369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424092e6ebe6b0c09f44f869529c5518/2601177007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/dotolozaliziwotenuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e44f11c3d---mexazokupajiratatotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/zekumunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/74668492080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/tukidemasobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210813_91C4F603F401BACD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/sokogivomutuvomaxomewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/91705951583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/tolojonijoxosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/wumopakuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/48574527429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lego+technic+8854+instructions+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_off0000d514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD514 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 52957138d46e4b2d2cf69206f0bc3550bcb21167cccf00456679abc552023b2b
font_01_sfnt_off0001017f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11996 11168 bytes
SHA-256: c52be85483f1074c800b4a2e8f7fd00b60cc4be508ac2e0cbc55adf1be8ec07d