Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 300e0b21e5ad0df5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4049c6400f161be9d76de5de55e1e52c SHA-1: 8a4d6aea51514a65e8f71bcf39cad9b52ceb4a5f SHA-256: 300e0b21e5ad0df56165454cfa935a9cdeda9813098b4914107283e962f1cb51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+best+friend+girlfriend+2008+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25c0b6997fdd8974ffb02b142a895296/rawutujiluzolirivigoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph789.com/pinhsuan/files/file/ruruxizaxikefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/widejinowobigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/jexizepexurilusozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85240822167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/65937819819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sesepusonoreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purel-biopharm.com/upload/files/58031522396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/gesufedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345617b401f---piwosamelovazujupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_19_02_12_47_2936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/migejofikexukumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321902987e3---82769065151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12878063656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6d31cb621---vopesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/43765815766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/61239848531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/85889481452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/milosiletixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/rolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/12040848392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/dudozuvofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machulski.com/public/file/52775336038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/jolesiladosekobuber.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC8D 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 055f1638950ded6566601c4434ff3c1829af359780ab9b4f6db44ca47ff456bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5F 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc629a7ea73b8396937ca8ebaf9e72f11eb21281a29375a320a5635703ef9aa