Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30a7765f061f87c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c23fc9fe4f1d607d335c3cf19231d74 SHA-1: dfffd46ee2a21bc83fcc5f8665a767866b255e86 SHA-256: 30a7765f061f87c25f249343dc9896764cf84caf8a7ac6e3f13528b72563196f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF's structure and the presence of multiple external URIs suggest it's used to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/texefupule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/palekixojimepajomagujetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607521b4dabe5---burarikotelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/ziwogivujunujosuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/65262667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/71404532695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090651cb6e9f---sefofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/bekuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/navuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaebfd824f---zifevovinijuzexaziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///75652505911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82b21c43e5e2d74a6efdc7c25b89be48/44202554671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j288r2dh3ug9qe2ft3o6u3d3f2/92902456761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/79648397495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/gixulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d89f39d419---xutebedinimedepeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf8b58bcbf---34426156160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35cf16c945b361b0ca7aea6f110e8f9/32344051669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6998585b67---zamenaludalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a969084c9ce26726244f678e3123312/jelaxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/72233874389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/29224757424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09751bab31245294ee287528be4aaac/vugeroxumaxedalozebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/rifiputetibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faf2e745c1d---96333696664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/63040303512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gifts+differing+understanding+personality+typePDF 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_off0001160b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160B 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 8a3483c12badc78e6c334642d210588945fde879bc2401e1b39c01e1fd579e00
font_01_sfnt_off00012f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4F 17480 bytes
SHA-256: e1c5bdc1ebd2e3904ff196c3ff08126e8d0282d57971a5775a9b75819ed929d8
font_02_sfnt_off00015d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1