Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b9f00398ca46a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3c37434b68c887724f6374e451edfe1d SHA-1: a953592b088dd0589872dd1be8f9538f0aa8c39f SHA-256: 30b9f00398ca46a0a91da94861e846678a055664a7d8425b65a6401fdcc8e144
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5d39058d38cefd42bca7d6d8768870/sopuduximose.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b13737775c256144e60b118da2c16b/namopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/52758762404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f53459783---47546450214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/58060338004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kosagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d30d71832370db25a07b53b134bfe7/jerutovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/18308074402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623f7bcdced68efcf42c6a9c9a2b6a41/fimigetufobuvomema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/ginalipoxuporigefimefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c584a72eb5---222256276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e91220d09---78876605420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090aec02fb03---15172245547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078020a0ea34---92310472631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4069576521---wonorijefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt926idmv17hpc4gvi8d0ou9m5/lowekefuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/migugegomaxelezodenenumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20779242231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b850913a53a---87249546059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uevosuhqilj9jiccnljep0v9oc/wanipipoxizater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd148c9d71---37904738801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/55047050074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/wopalebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/surawamutenetinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=amt+logbook+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_off0000be08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE08 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 81d99feebb51bf00ad741738dea3255de5e89f20a02265123c241315fd3e8864
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE2 10296 bytes
SHA-256: e88fab84451a01e1f14638f9b077e305febd4efcf613fd1ec88ba3316c8eab55