Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 308b5913e918f199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b8c6f60dfe00739dfc8448781a425721 SHA-1: ff8397a32bea9a5a4dfde040624c838558f74f20 SHA-256: 308b5913e918f199502f3c13b7abb117e5379d8d17901c1c0a09a16569ec7965
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and Trojan activity. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=madea+i+can+do+bad+all+by+myself PDF link annotation
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37d3975c2f---2505287740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/98227172657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/39209278998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/60309447868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruntpratcher.com/clients/4/41/419cf983043b9371e8393ecf97d676f7/File/zonidowali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e806def6317cc5fd18bbd9bdc7f5ebbe/nunupiponofeletavoveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babf03191bc---44770409217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/wumumekupuwokopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd193d53b4a---ximukodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/dipefanafuxojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/14346034343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/safafavakevesedefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/xujovomegowogasusalalawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccc79817b1a---89505302423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc94cd93ec---82365939478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokirevitepugoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b30bb0bd769e0fc970682038e3a71fd/xadomafetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210826115745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305571a7e23ff3d6aa3533c8c952f86d/10861726309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scdva70g08taa7g22cqqjlm406/jaliwizemobelikewobebaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072041fcf4b0---9299505496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfe5506c01fce8cbc92fc5b61aab8b9/81539538800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/ximuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/19858395683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210713042242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murten-hotel.ch/userfiles/files/16380271705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e64e92451c723d2b01136a81489d6e/venemele.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: e52f7d25ff0309b55ad6dc460df113db27057b2a63b556288b5ff0ab9113fb20
font_01_sfnt_off00010980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10980 2404 bytes
SHA-256: 5867a30a0d6824e62cbdc397982932b9d7d9b8b3ede169a30f3fdcf3d567ee5d
font_02_sfnt_off0001140f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140F 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea4f9a1b0c23d0089e71285d28049f21989414cf61c22d3f31eb8ce9e491e49
font_03_sfnt_off00014532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14532 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1