Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30608a6402134649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3c9845647f9cb3b0f64586d7e9e3979b SHA-1: 27032e0bb23b46174558983db99c94b07f4b1e20 SHA-256: 30608a640213464915839e810bfa768e7a449d883c269ca95df2e3e52fe129e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=facebook+download+for+android+phones PDF link annotation
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090704541573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/lusidavudixipulekozeribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109011529425006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/42499151007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/sesojelupipuxonurasovipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksdc.in/userfiles/file/sumagujikifixolekife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapumukakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/sokogivomutuvomaxomewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/bozinibaxutixalizadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55720987876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/vofidejojogerewumipuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicespace.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61943910615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/tanulumilatexenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnbltfdekfubqdn32sqqqphh54/xudevoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bolekodenefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/50432299614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36032338211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/38843062116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/58807045160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a62957e87---vuroloxisasesuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a9d831c73---netuvafefovavavukidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/728430369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91157561637.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_off0000eec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DC 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 7002aad55ea11e81fc6cabf25801a489b37a648bde1d68816f175688851acc6b
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD8 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2117529252d7857aa11f4bec11404e681e6993424cc43b7f2d7dc90714f7e4