Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 305a35d99639ad4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.4 KB Created: 2021-08-02 16:46:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ae28da447da251a188c5d5ce4e697077 SHA-1: 67aa8990a0d41c9a54d13d4c27910aef8deb547b SHA-256: 305a35d99639ad4e2719e73c4ac4f7787c45264b6b5dd661f43f0f0fd3e0340a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9883

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 http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbu24o079l6sm3710mektncm09/52880109771.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4879e6cafef510e3653d8a845c4be449/pometojalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--kprq5pvqklteonubj6c.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/13239438988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd72371c93b---porutamudaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k94s4j947bmdlojm1jbkfaulfv/16360645547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/mapotobesufoxodonobutuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b48ee6455---87044358527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4ae181cc08e306610d10efa5a85558/19374434712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1facb4993---71805349719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe3924d2bc48c016561f0008afa3988/doxumimogixakuzunoturuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc780472c9---puzevatomulogulapesabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84559238464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdba63a3968---29597883086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce8a18d7d7---dukusivujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210529_041336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogemaredusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bd81dbc43---41541415301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///vadasusivojixuzepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0ngr1b5aqfhgjm0a70kuoe1hq/wufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089300ab5e98---dofikaxojuludonedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///53970997011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/10389206766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lif8pltu8uc1oaj51mn31kl5b1/39490328472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=versiculos+dela+biblia+en+hebreo+y+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BE 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 5bea0fdb4b65032964415bdd7d5198d375500016578e0b705cebe38e3eac76ce
font_01_sfnt_off00012adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADF 17976 bytes
SHA-256: bc17b26567e0766f7d6779c0a47481149cfc0ab4b55a66d7b889030aa7d30e81
font_02_sfnt_off0001473d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1473D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F4F 21176 bytes
SHA-256: f0a164b39f7b42ff14043e005356675faccbcce6bd38eb6344bf35d3fc5ea51e