Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 302c8f27d0ca1f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 12:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 726ab819d42681331c97baef60750403 SHA-1: 2ba7682124520837dd5903e5839b61119b75bace SHA-256: 302c8f27d0ca1f864bac448f5ad5656c434b35b044a0a96d3013469eb40786c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised websites and other PDF files hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/34364653702.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://masihpt2.com/contents//files/fesamesowefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88sdh055agnfgpv0gb2shnsmcv/litijanekulipibegufepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/2600122713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dilitezaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c88922f6e---90456445756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b8b556d84---misobiwinarosububitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112cf352bbb9---zipirufoguxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/tobuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/85083401385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/sufewewebowojomoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55bc7fe7813e820f7368b0bece4e032e/gonekunekibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/zibolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/78435280035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/nukura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8udcc6id19onsasgsif86ugtr/89063658569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46185d2f7070c46ea30b2fbe20b94234/fokatuxedodilagifuvaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc8f92f095f0cdb28ed6c9a9ede9d376/48896123711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/xuzabile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/56590327656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2586e7f8a770e24a4b9996695cd92cd4/wewuvedisenuvetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=customer+behavior+analysis+pdfPDF 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_off0000fda7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BE 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 16741ee5b81c1b568a189af646f26260e262163d58e11d611f7462ec025db712
font_02_sfnt_off00012fa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA2 17744 bytes
SHA-256: c242505ab5c6797d61e230851c6e706b6cf4927710c63fd4a40e88886241b1c2

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