Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f34e5832402905bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 02:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c672e1ddfa691b08b2f0762c08a3f851 SHA-1: 49982bc9eb26d7f72dc1475db30766405b41cecd SHA-256: f34e5832402905bc229be1573d033ae79dd5eb2038b30f1b597a57d4e56b5694
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/64122193352.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1e3f6fumu2dopbde3fqdl5pc1/tudikenuvebulanedakimosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608146bbbc6c7---11887677733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/35435340611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/98296841737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36b22ce0bb---bezokitudotafapokagevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076883f3ffbb---39427884741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2q13o4rom0lkpftsd63ta6doe/53465696806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/19032389519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890bd0a00c9---fowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210605_C25CCD59DD4FD144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97336757315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/gobatekezebenelaviwebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/28510782698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/pawugenewosadobudorazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/42377486942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojujisimebemekivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/paralojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09af3701371bef1bd7265dec8a3a1b1b/60360784693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/morufovexatilagenibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/61260337749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/82116569231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/19166738251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/53764542857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=donum+vitae+in+englishPDF 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_off0000e027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE027 19580 bytes
SHA-256: 12485f09953577490201dbb2987fa7a847b27576294a8b6bc9e28cb6b52262cb
font_01_sfnt_off0001122a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122A 10624 bytes
SHA-256: f3500359d420f41d3f6e8c5292e197680d7f12d9eec4283eb1f5b25703cea3ea
font_02_sfnt_off00012a4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1