Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 230fc304156997cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 04:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b06ba794b4fc278c35911cc88104d3de SHA-1: 61330e1b0213babe5013a5b03d839090a97a6c7a SHA-256: 230fc304156997cb64fd9581c72eb476530f7078e82a6e0fd03092edc4f8c33d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+7+short+comprehension+passages+for+grade+6+with+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/671287340b9787cb583a12821ecf8832/suvewutezemipozalulajezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/14322005516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uqjrvpclekfpoc4frvmf0kqn9/13921712596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/ci/userfiles/files/95854230304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/73639456301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16250290662452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c561da67c---zokuvepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/mobukisirenegudiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghhf7fckbpsuusa97ffdm4np02/83915875320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f058b3e18---dudewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca37a4487f---96805515717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/pefowejabuvipuwefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c314ce7f7d5---28038020423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/87776478430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7t6epquu7t71pgcp7qd15g5g/lopeguvatamewifoboxonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcdbbc0837---2592499500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/36346917488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b14577c69ea5d74ee6af5f76c42a4a0/69245538986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b15d667ab---29702272796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/9092266218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/pobatakutajujatarezekiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/dizajiwajepifajejuviwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/52274977851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/284830df639ef67ec863c58ef928e7e4/12250004010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4oisi80kflqim5v7gi1uhp5dt/73882701840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/37880163075.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF458 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6F 11648 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea7c1eb436dd88d6ed349978081be4209677344058d0079ad8c9eaae826fcd6
font_02_sfnt_off0001279a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279A 16776 bytes
SHA-256: a6f775cfc62f697e3aeb20b0406173abb25d78d072cb0adbd8d3f6e5b514100e
font_03_sfnt_off000152dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152DD 16224 bytes
SHA-256: da79484a7f94e028a8871d907a282bdc2df095dfef79f7b1f2af1efeeab75da7