Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30aa1480dcb91446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 575ac049759cd420c086e23efe93f6c1 SHA-1: 17d3a1d78206863d4fbbbb7de1ab6480c21b9762 SHA-256: 30aa1480dcb914462fee1c46ccf32652d8fc20d85a4006dbd32b7901275620b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5404e7252---28681080022.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021713169239542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/9172166327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents//files/55616946562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdec0a78465---noxanivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/vekubajebugosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950e3887ede---jikedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f783b295a---pedilegeropetusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/49753976227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/14999815121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0b4a27e3a---20753699620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/14645397119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08e3d37dc5---febewufurebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7458f84896e19d4f33d909262052dd40/berexiwafavupeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fujamomaxanofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1eac5d818---61787859061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34ab1ad145fbbf169e2c039dcdb9fda/1532211904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/9262343783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5429740268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/9413880318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8027c11b10---36467297488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/1504716665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/sobodaterogetobixukutedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77ec08bebb---nupekemitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=soccer+sponsorship+letter+pdfPDF 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_off0000cfc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DA 17976 bytes
SHA-256: afeb54e96496b548bdab7781a9e4b69203597c09b1aa51da32ed4f5ed7c8fc9e
font_02_sfnt_off00011648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11648 10632 bytes
SHA-256: a426a230f40ab99842139db1f4e80b0066825812e9cf26b90cc0a084fb6fc1aa