Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30883b295212b099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 19:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac5c372e16ee76d204bf99345de99952 SHA-1: d6de15fec69216aba125ccf7b2e06d8c7ea4f015 SHA-256: 30883b295212b099158ff17803bfa2ea7acf70c46d0e5fe2b89695fd992b5b85
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging a PDF exploit to redirect the user to one of the listed malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=topologias+de+red+caracteristicas+ventajas+y+desventajas
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/92959816037.pdf
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/vasuximiriworetewex.pdf
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59340908319.pdf
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/86825690301.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d2f380e762846787650c130b31a6d4/22668626176.pdf
    • https://p1gtac.com/uploader/files/girotawomuxoxilalanimu.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112bee42ef56---3718656229.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3e25197a6---gusebexibigelimavu.pdf
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210602_105447.pdf
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/70257521333.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089685857428---safafabowefapudapofepila.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a2a2a327ba73285ac7b7a5784e4988/pefabijitofezuz.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820f1d2d3a5---luluzupumexupofoberujugi.pdf
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/fezeredobi.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59499c410---31529475846.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821f69bcd1d---73890355607.pdf
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6bb72c139bea1337199109ed19f315/76862248878.pdf
    • https://www.geo-decouverte.com/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70786189757.pdf
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/24567445469.pdf
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/36717871846.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a91501ce8285442c8e716d0af773f5/88364627999.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_off0000f07a.bin
c215b86c7eb975f20b0c7bf35e786edc8fc86862e05167c5bd60b08010e07d10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07A 17956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e0c.bin
27f74372a99de9dee11dd3820cd8ec955f24102484d2413691d609e652d64627
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0C 10960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001376d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1376D 16792 bytes