Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30d0d55b28f38ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 580c91313ca7f909b98528b0cb21f44f SHA-1: 2b175a4e91d04060e72a2ba352f95527aabad67a SHA-256: 30d0d55b28f38ca9380c93df02db01a76b6c901ad34a1ec84fb2c6599f094fbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or SEO abuse.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+css+color+codes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///20216141723127933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedding-photos.cz/userfiles/file/81868096360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35asfk5g9ia7hkgpg138oe0407/46600836156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb7fce1e45---67709899327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32360645180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/95228266515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/77168178621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28592d9928---bezelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/44543705394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e5c23c4c4ef1e593d0ee9f1872bcfbf/28305623813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/81510851319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/xuzajorunikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/kitodurijedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/56325361059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb38869682---xaxuzanigefobafefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5bdded524---49600847072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/98794300305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/35554967716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/14788155707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/99867265154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/1853083397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000109a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A8 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff8404830fb05b265fb4d321b1c6bb3a077d0da0c7a874388ffc19fa200446d
font_01_sfnt_off0001206d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001387f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1387F 18996 bytes
SHA-256: 34a87ae1b84d7a8379825f61ec06d0c3835918495d5d51433f5ae1a5689d1799