Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 304b0dea4c1c53cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 01:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 22dac15239d1f701ae0be4590e6251b5 SHA-1: 9dfbc3fc391e2dc10e388e7b6381c6a8cfddede0 SHA-256: 304b0dea4c1c53cf956c5d80bfbee9966a5090f6b687f79172cb9f989c3b6b1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document's content appears to be a lure, possibly related to guitar chord diagrams, to entice users to click on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=f+chord+diagram+guitar PDF link annotation
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c9f62efde---97713558771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbe491srhp68614qjsuefjj9ep/7867032589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86172516fc---fisilovuxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e252e75db---voxoweketixevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/44469051824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c59d55e9e---kapibevesipagudidevufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/56795306543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949df0ec929fc743dba237bca32b4194/nenuzog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021051504243273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad9008bf16---37654540717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c459de1e6---42922199918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cymagun.com/userfiles/52930145178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/92661049302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138703c2927f67e4bc4e2c2dd464b85a/banupima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834e824524a57307a2e9f563b43fa713/51780802371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/8330099732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/jerisaxesokevikoveten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emq30rbh1a3lff3a42q3s51q9o/wapataselefubuxumizuxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000def1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF1 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 76ed94d7a2f091f6a8eb44bc18af074dc2a15aa9ba87e0332f3e4392cdbff1cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01E 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 91de15b614d6e81319b1cf6ef14a8d55b8ffd47377901059c87893c4c685c9df