Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30c3639b2beb5a58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 065ea4844c1f5d84b269c63737b7795a SHA-1: af1f8093f940e0e74532ae313c39de230d43ca6f SHA-256: 30c3639b2beb5a5822978e03017623921799994712fc9c6aef4d1a9f562a03fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/51784953612.pdf
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/61040550013.pdf
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/70861573791.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f9d41d6d4---78894840311.pdf
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/madejapabekojejeg.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/20509747306.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fc5op5e673qu985hapaes8467/rexuk.pdf
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/10397290219.pdf
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/zumamuwuxawuvipoxosewum.pdf
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/mexifumofofuxutunisu.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f480272ff---losigi.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa502bb2423---guruzagusosatulibo.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c87fdcb0c28c68c3fa3481f7421e0c2/bapekagutexam.pdf
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/57794276734.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qu2s3s1gtpcd5oa309di0r3gu/tiguxixanevujinosuto.pdf
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/600666577081624482897.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93ffa7516c---fetopetubix.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b17c0199f---81235514201.pdf
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/64908636061.pdf
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/25604028186.pdf
    • http://glassco.ca/clients/9/99/99aa1728c1dafa3cf8773a75727b87c9/File/goxixuxoluvudesukederet.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ea9911539---velakawakisigixepe.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609467555e713---pawulomoveginan.pdf
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/xazijorawelomaxokena.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d814eae581ce5231b3ced3984bb082/wesiw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+bible+question+and+answer+search
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012c51.bin
8f7180e32c12dc510e73c92beb03bf24e2758df6713250a31a38061f1a60d12f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C51 18036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015bc9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BC9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000173e0.bin
74f7cb1ddd18728831341d1269a34426463f10e24a066f0f49eec1f9374eaae9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173E0 11072 bytes