Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 306f66add2864743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d962684403d0e8ca3b8085228438677 SHA-1: 89a8da84d1c910dd6629d632b0dcb0732045a69b SHA-256: 306f66add28647432f579088b6d8d83f8766c9196ca045f79dc24c2df2d9a783
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely malware distribution or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbbaa61ab509d9dbe9c330d715b7e92/51881275834.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53e8ec40e4cdc393d256dc0a048abac/97463221028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8f9cacb7---1550000825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436a8fb6753e2770c43fa4ccb770f0f8/4962591007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/movisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897d0e76b9c---35018528495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/74727324507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/vukojeravekupido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1658bc4b4a---31861932795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073147d06c6c---62144093435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/pimumarirazinadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_8245FD80B876DC99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/62480121979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/99951367250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae06eaca03a---30946147879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbaoeb5ij73uveqd4g52n3vop1/xukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/68809136502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/or43cv9f8hf150mnopac8t8jb5/pitelawidowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/8778391308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff51f629c74dd4eeb8e3e12224b67afa/vadete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd7b69f78---wodelisudasereludax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608549dfa6743---puzibusefomipegagifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4caa1054f5c48d624c56598213455f3a/17793780314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/29687528946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=matthew+chapter+3+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000edc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC1 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 54cc3eab8d6f6524c7802bd8a3f5ebc3c5ddf2413960d2555e0c7c68d8669b87
font_01_sfnt_off00011a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A24 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 606d6cb44f8b869ed0464722fc077adab5b3f4ddb5f1c839c2c7b1aad2cccf8b
font_02_sfnt_off000133c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1