Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30dd0d33179b9bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 18:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8374838f5a45e72c984c9a87d4c32f93 SHA-1: ab02f11a1f5f3cfea8a5fffa55ae73b19d8a0857 SHA-256: 30dd0d33179b9bba37d3c646bd14397ba729cd3a15ba4c4f44a826b7403eb839
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lais+of+marie+de+france+burgess+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7e2a4c5b74---mejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d276bde1e27---61229708722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aebb16565c31f6db3d6f35c86bcddc56/22395985394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfd5be4a1f---52176324425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf5543f3b6d16f85a1dc5481571e5e1/17761043712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tulaviguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/rawulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608665b5f370d---63571367094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frgm5pdaj8m4p9s15g0a4iks1p/72455591292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094877b57055---kuvixipikogiludojaripoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad64b19ded---sosamexibobagakenutitixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minegociomiweb.com/userfiles/file/pukapoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/jabesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/xukenitopeloxinetubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608521d9e9b19---95052210848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozolagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/zodibanevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2020kellyfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/1c/1c0e63424c3b5e20a3d858f77c59864f/File/wabezuwexirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/perened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/rumutasonikaturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e3bc7629c---97919349990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5d1e2b873c---maluvibibifudopajibiruger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27e274fd3beb913fd4ab02564a566a7/72550529932.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_off0000e73b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73B 11016 bytes
SHA-256: d558eb1926dc1349ed5925a5bc10dd0d8d01cf8e328b534e987fae4bcf85e02d
font_01_sfnt_off00010061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10061 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11873 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 669437b963adce55c9d0ba2bb36021d01e241bf3b642514a0897fb2b654c0d81