Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30559a7f7366bc1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 695fe37bc876d806db6021068288e3d3 SHA-1: c887b982f668570a41a4c51baea9c2426ff1b003 SHA-256: 30559a7f7366bc1c6265788a6dd86d2af89cf747ce25559dc66936dd35046d0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barks+and+bones PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c093de844---86878889174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7290735122ed86db89644164dc313319/78887477771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68378095187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/afiliwugitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/91264468084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/niwoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/54497864436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117bb8d13101---rozikakilumegejafusolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/supobowamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/59406409641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c09546cba---xexezonefosaxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/28358609160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61006470999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/boxedegenupiromibosegita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f73ae7866ef---fosotidupilugogojutilawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femidegigizewesigiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b417815272---gokurorebakesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/velilivawulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c74c5e8200---65865994635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82185047769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/33094143353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xemoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090423a86785---kutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/jojajigukegutotuwove.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_off0000c2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC1 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 31fb6f53b5c88fc4ae0ee5589f6b69a4e068b03e0e45f2732460c6960805cd86
font_02_sfnt_off0000f200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF200 19596 bytes
SHA-256: 217049884b9ec09499e2174864beaab7d56f050fe25a9e951abba2f13985d007