Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3002330ef8572eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e524d153d69cc2b7c62e4dbd726e9103 SHA-1: 947571d96fb793297b431a78e0aeb0d2f5a3d0f4 SHA-256: 3002330ef8572eeceb376d60829b689b9ece8dcf6cc8fe68239da4d5294ea595
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acc3e7c89e14e3fe145ca197e79e490/57102618667.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609651f2aece1---76613980745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/94623894236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/18753159426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/69868241996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/poluzogubawexedakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/teseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/zebowegulunadudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/47989478809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpbullies.com/clients/2/2c/2c827f09d77a589c2c5c7da8c033a3f4/File/pagimuvabuwikerudezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/dipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/88261748228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4420ec89179103a126156419c1edae2/xenadenogezimemiwafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779a8645519---gajawijomoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/23355840246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/48037116830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e11919d688f7d148f1c7b3ef2a1f84/gonobeneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080206558563---lofifedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb31950065---nuzosigukakepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8926e4c2---64572396713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021062592337_678289049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/reruwunusejamunoluxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/95881198047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=neonatal+care+meaningPDF 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_off0000ea6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6D 10384 bytes
SHA-256: c9a86af55f78e7563cc3c0c7d4edcaf9db5b32ce0adbea83c8de63fb210a878b
font_01_sfnt_off000101e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F7 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 479ea99e9d74f65efff78e4728cbd73a5b104c5dbd546077d64d2d6002241187