Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a30b0a3614fed73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 36ba181bd1d643b8e957beeb84607f99 SHA-1: 452f91d6da554bc82fe7cf0bd1ce98572a1481e3 SHA-256: 2a30b0a3614fed7343b4efaac25d3c43a79e7a1a97e4f22894bdb636aaf719c4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure and URL patterns align with common tactics for luring users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wheelmartthailand.com/image/upload/File/40007592160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78895785478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/32706552105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/2229311681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28804934022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/87039430450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/31000691823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rovamasenetulizabuwepiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widomebojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamso1.net/uploads/files/77264362171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7317ed3766319c3cf1ee2364e8342ef8/bavumofuveveguwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf12f2984aea5d732584fba04288f3f1/jixulelujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8umb571q1k08dq2jc4284auoj/31947741297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/jatetubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80582016148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://style4.allwebeasy.com/userfiles/files/70191326873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/88377270595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekapanikizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021090714483079624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76c9c9ab2f358161ce87cb446ac5dee9/domukofevefuvinitovogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.net/E/file/1507168354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/nemexuwonunapulupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32714798696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffb29525e1---nozujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mi+screen+recorder+internal+audio+apkPDF 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_off0000dd3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3F 19536 bytes
SHA-256: b41abc4de473f4eb49e9ba95a3d2057546a43b8b40935745025f730017de221b
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CB 10692 bytes
SHA-256: f82f6c496a5d1dd20d3d46ca3438a6c97554248fd52fe2cafc1d34ce6a78c271