Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 301d8ea39ffc624f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 20:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e6951e76cddf01169d9b9506d06c6675 SHA-1: 474a7545cf71e683af1b5c1b5bed41271378f00c SHA-256: 301d8ea39ffc624f149bfe8bdd7ae5407f2ad298ecdfc73a20566dfa6fdf5d01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=volusia+county+driver%27s+license+office PDF link annotation
    • http://poliambulatorioargentina.eu/userfiles/files/49633725661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/balag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c06e70978c---bavabupuzulubilazazisaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/43469562893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65358221790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/76775992618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613024b8850fe---pugemoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/pejusalosuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/kuvuduligaluwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133819f48982---fotozikogalofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/tiposamumenafogulife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/92568567522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/sutibirosaluxibojuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6191dea53503336aa23118ebe95695/99654506701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/moles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinizsibank.inweb.hu/_user/file/disexumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/guxuxukiligegudosepojoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/99144244608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68961137693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsc-tw.com/userfiles/file/pugeputamufebogagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xolekuwusivakuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70399458153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/22078771075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/27510179953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringladies.cz/userfiles/9777941667.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_off0000cf64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77B 10752 bytes
SHA-256: f4677ba555763de001805e190aa5d89231f6e102df0f06dd42202cac61ab79f7
font_02_sfnt_off00010072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10072 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 77d4c7e710a3157ca7b691ba4361367916959a9e9dc8612c1092563c860e22ea