Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30620da0f77915a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f8c6b5d31e39b9b99838d5588ecee493 SHA-1: 2fa1b0ebf4fbab0c14705acecd63bafb8fe3b6ba SHA-256: 30620da0f77915a0afb900038c6b3866eff937f09af21090195ae75199561ac0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and a critical ClamAV detection for phishing. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/tataxukemasipa.pdf
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/zexinapuwatibutivejobater.pdf
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/kajireza.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdn0cff9eefas4a3bjka0s0njr/11112567605.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/jexorozidumavin.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crv4s1ok12qdcqi9mmbksusoi4/49326228630.pdf
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3910fb9097---27772887033.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848503a8f02---binetaf.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc922c7a0---rorokigobabe.pdf
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/zeritidabiz.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a41a1c56---wisanaseweduranexevelexa.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3qcj4070gljq2924c5prrctsh/76914062865.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5dedfac0b6---wemebexarim.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cece27d1e27---37023796152.pdf
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/kutuk.pdf
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/21509476113.pdf
    • http://poornasreehomeoclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68428051229.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d4b72cb74---sazedixalisadudizajin.pdf
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/ravafodijimimewu.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d18017ccbd0daedf7a44bf338c81df6/98287961113.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a535fbd7426---6924867750.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=test+on+carbon+and+its+compounds
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1eb6dcc347---rijitijimav.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e645.bin
1ef5eaab8248492ef4ffd557656f86ccbbd86ffcf74803850de1d001de8d6ee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE645 17072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001127f.bin
84fc575ccf8ab2ee57bdaa208ffb012c1d413d5673a16425d7f2bccc76577450
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127F 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4E 16792 bytes