Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 303c5c5d7144ee95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fe267a887fabc3d0e892e1cdb820fc88 SHA-1: f0f43c4e49f8617854cd4439dc9b97b0fe34ba32 SHA-256: 303c5c5d7144ee95e46a81cad5915265e364259b0e534bb971f0c3722885c129
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with external URIs like https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+streaming+player+apk+sony+max. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL targets suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+streaming+player+apk+sony+max PDF link annotation
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/15623007128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90aoja6ahg5ds.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/78974949438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/dilevuturupoxenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/fawulevojulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21738383125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/tizebedagetavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614090ffb62f5---96054222508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705rajhequv2vu5hv3l0j5p0u5/vizusavegakoresenagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0053d94ad17601c8b9e509c224563d/gelotafavakopogaxejezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/7245295431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/24455940919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/14143032010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8e6615c6b7441ff58b2543977328de/rabuwarosapikivevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/35559824349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/xijedederofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/tubobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/xolutelazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisopiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430f79128b5---divusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109111130573160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/57454459286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/90092308128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373534e4b10---40838546613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345c6e4fd8e---xajalawu.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_off0000d251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA63 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9e78c843c62c2e304ca072ef3a39da8ff2a0e1953eccff413ef30c7d28f0aa
font_02_sfnt_off0001187f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187F 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 09d1eef95b1470499f0df8b39c16a56e4a39f6c722e861a8fafc82467316524d