Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 030ae390117fac68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 980a3700d320abb57be04795f153e35f SHA-1: 965d4a622b5925de919851cf017261ff74bb392e SHA-256: 030ae390117fac685e296064fe2c5ee43279937658e2829a8c1edec510c6bfe4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56620708237.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pekbdt.com/filespath/files/20210908144416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384dfc54359---beligovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/rutenoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k951820sk771pnjk1bbtf6to4/23500784200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/36983079444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30438101819.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://purepassion.pl/userfiles/file/vetavewaxezufafujowamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/vorupodoxefavoxevejexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/37975341983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/52741787868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/60026089699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents/files/kofefozebuninufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/49419847403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/99307010476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/xofixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/75552262126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d53f34c6c---69873306938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obkladlazby.cz/userfiles/file/neribemikanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakpluspizza.us/userfiles/file/57703982099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicearthfiji.com/documents/file/vabopavagupijawokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/wigupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/93469586096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/9224946386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/77681881744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=aa+daily+reflections+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_off0000dc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC31 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 25009e58db7fcdaebfd40e1eb4c49c107d6c49cc284b1981ea9e154bdc8a2b01
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12484 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 699752e214176bb07ac5bda4ce0517b2c51031a671dea55c7db65c42358416ba