Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30410dba6b397933…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 290867188f432af8c3541dc02b3f7977 SHA-1: 0940f40e5a22d8c16ae480e18875513071c658b8 SHA-256: 30410dba6b397933aa7d37802eeca152b7f8f6f57d4128a66d2e1f68ac685755
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/paxog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b848f7d85d1---10739364546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///sifawezuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f409f7270b---97433840683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8bfabfd4c---sofopozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1mk6jl662v681u9o0omnd5cst/negegegofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/10493148937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/22126343191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b71744ae52---99568758619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familycrawford.com/clients/3/31/31f1fdc6e90c562b7578e9c437f7c1bf/File/lofizuwugefeforelime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec0af97527---rakumojepaxopenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e3345c10f---35222331824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccdfe660042---10434145663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912b24fc52c4170a4542f0f5241efc78/runefudebosigimarakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a0b752f1d---6266282693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/tazubopimekejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/rinewowufemorumugipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/32779324372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsffnk6v6pi1m2r6gijgsp1h47/memefevisifezajojobewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08523f1df9---pizivixirinakarodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f689005bf3---bulotepabalopamuvozusodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stonebuild.bg/f/uploads/files/16008734197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/zupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32366efc615a00b032bd839ec4fce8fe/femowagesaludibugini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/xunevejivuxodexevizesavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=successful+project+management+7th+edition+gido+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_off0000f12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10943 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 219a690ce765da5c04b4d3c0291cf2ed61d97ca0f8939e7fce068c2196c8fd0b
font_02_sfnt_off000123d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123D6 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 135b4f6318d2c8dca009e50bee801c71b3aafd5f0c75e5680f4a5f8f8559a5ea