Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e30c8a5003e2fb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-05-10 11:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 80ad1481d39a5a983bfbf8d2d05cb259 SHA-1: ae0643b8faf3144496339a80d0a8214ea3630b5f SHA-256: 0e30c8a5003e2fb1f67d2c83a28bdb1735ec189dbc58bf23cba47bcd3a153a56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or for SEO manipulation. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607391ccb3c07---56370460569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/luzalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a16cb446c---dinageneberejisuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd77aab87b354c93d1f84b683ab9c4ab/34939693655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8955e1e5b5669f9d438900564123b6c/musiroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d58257bb0---muzojujetadegowovixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dcf2f0e509787bd7225a30b955fd8ec/84295413298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dcf4d46a3d446a91836ecdb15561b93/tovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f697824e3---regora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6378jgdft0ln9bfu5bgkjnut7/81907934948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486149e02a7412b51dc9ee158d53e33b/bupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f74gl212ielq9kfptjvcca3o/15354848909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vglgo6tdnd3bp35ggv8qvbamo/mixupitenolazimuzewoduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67c0fe95641bc77387b5dc295cdb336e/niremosizasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca01d83f06---9351519619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/zaserolelivazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2214b52d4---zubodukebivulavajoxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=beginner+guitar+songs+sheet+musicPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE80 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 0707af5ae30fe6da9ce674ac3f31fd1fb62246bd6ea4526c16f37d442fdad4da
font_01_sfnt_off00010020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10020 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f5df34b971e2592adc027d82489ca4bc1b827c004a9cb4bdc15f51af34a760f0