Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30a6a405853a9103…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 02:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 35d2a277ea5756183ad763922f670cc2 SHA-1: debe813450feb89d6eea9363967555c179d27286 SHA-256: 30a6a405853a91038665f32014efd9aa2c07cb028b340b13bd6ecb9ec4a37519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+from+pdf+to+excel PDF link annotation
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/fasenepubizudafusitazeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf00130a71ee07a6bdc74d65efb9bfd2/40385196323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f02c5d2a997---84777719025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/welegabubagobuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d309760db94747584707c15afadfcdbe/58251129789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de1bb8e767d---jegepevigirusotosatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caaef6ad7a---xewefosikamamugosuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/nadiwitejuwogowedivejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fabfff23ac907c2472da592e9c77a07/64671800884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b1429eacd---25416977833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843f16a4e5f---gipemavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d8984c94---76785538083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c9a14dba5776804358ddcdff1c3c65/79353415321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef4fb71410---lenasopodaroxavijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/1837816159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvp70jjc7c1nepegnhptcmgq79/10546938291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/dowekalepezafeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e808192c608ff50bf041cec287795a/77796986407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/deradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27db618197c161c2ce5e020873b8d1d/derimazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/vasomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7nmklfmg0a6f393033eioluck/13639156157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/tegifemorarekupupaxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/bigosomip.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF868 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 406b95c6680447a296b1d7ba32a56e8aba4dd9d510c216cf197894315820618a
font_01_sfnt_off000124bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BB 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 1040d6e2c9b5be8dda59c58398e9d35706e19becc547933d37522d795b94aa03
font_02_sfnt_off00013d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1