Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30d81af6139efe95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8c4d43cf5c2f5c5c3f56d6be9b3846af SHA-1: 0e774926806badfb051b85dd696c70d2cc6989c3 SHA-256: 30d81af6139efe9539c2b662b780ce9907aa43f737df00f1e55f2507641d1577
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, potentially for phishing or distributing further malware.

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://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83155556912.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b6554dc01---ferawarabotata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/25808760160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/pumipelofuvunexebadofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-zavora.cz/data/file/kinodarapidowugobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/depezorepuzamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a6d96933a---60763335610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/1339683201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67415454047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/muzoputaladikofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/61063077640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/67833601224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pasujenewemepojopetezama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_21156C9E3BF0FCBD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurejenekanone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/51791515742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca0983e313e40b3c17a2c323e64b269/64512416428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/70407461050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/67617454532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupebafibedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33908499210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365d850bc48---zajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/bujaruvagowijowejomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/48812947810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=urie+bronfenbrenner+bioecological+modelPDF 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_off0000d382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD382 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB99 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 62463657af7b43027e64d7173785ed31dd82659e74f265fbce3a8d0d460bf181
font_02_sfnt_off000103d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D8 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 84ba2c33619dca33bf00269e3b482a718ef03b3ec8ae0a01728f3f69fee9286b