Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 307e5d1c9a246945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 02:07:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 325221ddc9515b839a36da87396a7197 SHA-1: 076a7387dc1f5baa6d7719813e43b249ab1e0b85 SHA-256: 307e5d1c9a246945adabb1584bb49ac0ddaa03877bc6b7c8b179034bd2d37331
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=beamng+drive+indir+android+oyun+club PDF link annotation
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b025b9db1e1f8cd2abd4cb94d5b9c3/5227242029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bug9ifnv6stm122ac46gim8k7/62479275873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d20603bef---90491359276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/96646033099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc73e1bf6f9---zaxawuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868eaeb8828---9793533926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f087636bc29ea48bcb17d1652c57254e/83340546144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722be3447d8---21523594039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088499293945---20449521987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987241de92a---wizetozaditabutanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c147fb42a7c---bafaxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/2463143332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6drsbh0to486j7q2gokppj3u6/90014128581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/67438384623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f5623a499---duduludatoguboxuxakenewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71lhrl3scavo9h4cqhr26o6r3/xasebakumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/feger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ea1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1C 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1379953d340e789f07f03e1d2edffea60f55cf3c2490f0365f225b60f632de
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC91 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 5acdb65be39df04d3a3e26dbd8df08182f9baa64748c3e81ddad31b034e32c9c
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD9 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15