Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e41e13497a2214…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b6f9b52e7bc59a60c4f4c4d3857663eb SHA-1: 735118ed4320631705e5f8273a8c0974c8c82752 SHA-256: 30e41e13497a2214c9e5fe6d8331c38c3994613ec482a243ea20a0def18a7f19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The file's structure and numerous links suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/zaviwirabivofitabumitez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/febiwebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/85690327464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/36202003904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/tupulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78226254499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/dajululobuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/porotinupugisaxowojubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/lazowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/waxopuxizikofonojesurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/82707309518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58ab8a0a0853b4c01b0549655ece92c/58703017708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d451ddf3b79---49913596521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2var9s91mdt1291dq5mfefdisa/lexotejorotumexaleragema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/gelugizegoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8f2caa54248b696070ef1c3870e47f/88557574696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3fredhlu6st98ubqtqqn4q15k/65329412238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/xosavamonogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/getipobadopovufiverukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/romugasuvopeliroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b111dc044---3348583094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rbigdp89d50kksu2ha9r7kk9q/45712899511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/lagaweropis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/popepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=child+labour+conclusion+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_off0000ea69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA69 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 7cee1dbd88369e4acdb2b41c539594b1b77a2f034fa9f7b26fb938cfe9292aec
font_01_sfnt_off000102c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD9 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 53b90da366869a13028c3803df7fd25eebd4592d58c8a92dee40a3f3d14a48b9