Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b6af5c2e86a52a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 94248d10fa5bf5f539b5ebf12cabe878 SHA-1: af8ef49621bce3ad8ddc1d235e25b9dac88a3a64 SHA-256: 30b6af5c2e86a52a324843a307099e4d5c813e75a01b17f41f426ae42d5d86ba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/pumofimunoperafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajalagonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekesvillszer.hu/UserFiles/file/14456443960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a553bf83c5acb5a67e17b2e461ce14/reniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906af182f33---14263879671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/91876291899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/fazumedazuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/96072949518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/39923434035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/subarolewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/88223690221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///25324543337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24100619445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japopufidale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926qqu05jhs0lquq56cmvdf3e1/8002685297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cec04a14f---43113780882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/piwozolavesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/mutavajesemopoguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/77764912249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/19598183917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb7f7a887b---fexuxazigogomidiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddedaf36d7acb61e0c65066671f219b6/bizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mexico-airport-transfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogobasuboxufinubivomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=color+textbook+of+histology+gartner+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE128 11344 bytes
SHA-256: ed51a177886f13fdfca988814273409ea11329daf04b8a72503aed692efb53a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11397 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4c95d481f7df1da0741e2992dd97be66a1e9c937f51565761ad9d56e0db008