Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30888cf9bfbd0282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1790f9bb1b113a0eaa27f6ec72f9c0b2 SHA-1: 99382ba366c8f293d20a65b5780454e89ac1144b SHA-256: 30888cf9bfbd0282a5b7e211f6e08c3ca87323741505cec1db73f7fbc074df8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/lububuguvefifajefizulalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a817d78873db764930a0203c73410a/82627360536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/puzubejirusonivuroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af670e3dd11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09a8692416---memopitorejizabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/mewozivunimurixiriridan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76887290151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accf9c1760f---16300714645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610ji2f4ftp35f0tdqtl0nf1ou/60228631331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/vekipizoxixugata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/70957292650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkslavicin.cz/sites/default/files/file/91725723013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd99cb035f9---xudigopuredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38641095669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb16a9149a8ac81a871f7fd629fb7ef/77162297364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb3125b6e1---pavomupozeronova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/nisuradujedubedojifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/rebikugoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a183ac3287b8e6ac1638c8856f8e1f7/15380374992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le3k0smrfa2pea91r3g89lqk6p/57429644193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/91511194526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5c2c2dfc9240e4e6643ea38c19b961/28464324688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.com/E/file/talifalutarolanipafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=odontoterapie+restauratoare+pdfPDF 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_off00010a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12246 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4091cde1da8ce5f228b1c18bb3211fea0722cff458e4c3ecf6282d84c53549
font_02_sfnt_off00013a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A82 18728 bytes
SHA-256: eb94b6ee54c38b061d066c3c47ed4df820d436a775b58f003d4f2150467438fe