Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 305ed7c9a8da2b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 11:20:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: aecdf13d3f72d3a47c0b80d44c04cf57 SHA-1: e9b9bbf098cf9d1fdc66019597bc3957ae9d35c0 SHA-256: 305ed7c9a8da2b8df57d15f283d4a105b14175ae4d3d15b3f9ff8174f3045df4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a malicious intent to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vejetirepiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/27052681909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210926172017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94441392791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/7205063314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/44550181487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8-hi.dataroom.tw/upload/file/79065095749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee4e3f09286a08d5b2b40302678c83f/69252554881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/18713726283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/85094260327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoraccessories.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/17441944698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161509368bc6e0---75706646165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxegilutulaxetudosakopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365d45aa981---68029217290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/19287019139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/11949773985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/1157989571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b46c7f2f4a---40877181981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/debofikipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/48966275172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakujutufiwesinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43hnf2uio836p77lnu4le0kg4/3204737974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/70282977617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/192762598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pes+20+ppsspp+downloadPDF 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_off0000b298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB298 14752 bytes
SHA-256: bc335c7a72f084ad288991b5decc94790a3efd3bd3b06d338c7fa1c149d087d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F5 10424 bytes
SHA-256: f72917f67f2cb5246fae272187c4fe1215ba49f1708a342992d26906bcb61590
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1