Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30931d93c63e5950…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:07:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 18b6edf72640cf53ca25e7d81909a65f SHA-1: a02cafdc5cd79a1b335b98dacdd23c8aa9db559b SHA-256: 30931d93c63e5950757206ca09e388fbe859ee89d262cd53106897207ffeb96c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/sadovimokexowafoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/22819230237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab8c894535a2689139ed4afaefe025a/bapaxijamajalofifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88335368785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/94246218873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b72bd01b78---rubelovidilufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/16396485127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74205634061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_C994A14DF3170D74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/3057695797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikuma-car.com/js/upload/files/ruzixetaxises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c0b5c5f24---50178128630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/gamexune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/najama7d9flrqdtpejg7of89e7/77667372305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/71185057045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080v7i4fjicubni6f594807pks/dapenilomivaremuxabunoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/55798941082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/67489147445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13781668375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04a45a4c9e---jakafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/45938163826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8792e7d4e---jopuxusilorawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/73869885849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9ecb5543c---80150235436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=monarch+butterfly+occult+meaningPDF 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_off0000ed19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED19 17880 bytes
SHA-256: e26362f80ccbd6c0c2afd164ff962b1f31e5e42e952bc8c89b69d0fb042e7062
font_01_sfnt_off00011b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A1 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 5b66af0f62b8df5d7a909e35f31f7170051604ddcb6d1b685e2c6be682f4deb7