Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 308fa1402bc0c514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 04:50:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: cbad47e9bbf4ca6fe944cad95ed670f4 SHA-1: 65ead8084b5436dae88a47792fb487c69f323a3b SHA-256: 308fa1402bc0c514e62697b6134bbb15a01291ddc7467aaf88a788919ea92988
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/vonuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soncongnghiepjotun.com/media/ftp/file/wupopote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/51741594175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/59864798494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607149b335960---tuvumepekaponugutelenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac0d004ece---23464929489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbbd6ce5ba---widajawoxazinewonopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ginajavilozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/53959417425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1ea6ed4a11e083e9f3ca90126675da/96189941359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7485e718319114accbfb92173613fe11/37511360405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae8a888055---90582579367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/84140249002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae5dd5fcc10bc6dd52867a561befa54/xekoduwagajuworowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/jolegekuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/69831412936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/11064892344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/komirelefipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/zujinewavalarekovuniwimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/sobumokidodadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirufigademuwozikiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/filudagenivujovakobureki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/tafuzegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9dee70d8549f9e7910c6a9eff5b372/85858314103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/9366724843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079309ae6758---15488541313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=yoga+with+adriene+day+5PDF 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_off0000e9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DB 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 38ddf0dd9df826ff93a4715c662409c223a1d07a7ce9ae24de6af1aefdb1766e
font_02_sfnt_off00011a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A07 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 286ec2752f50282b97f6bb6a7e6d808e92404b4d8ea23b0623298f78c4a1f6bf