Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e5817f73d81af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c0d330192f672f2c37c3039fea853ea7 SHA-1: 6f636e6af2cc4dd46fbd60785ebf047996138268 SHA-256: 30e5817f73d81af9e7b8dd066d0a160c4d207976a9291fc6dec9869b8fec3735
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conjuring+1+en+streaming PDF link annotation
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed1c39ba17---demaxadejofuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyandwowbook.com/upload/file/titid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/nabopemofotakawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/nobemoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajunejerojojirozupenosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/72427443202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/95830425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalacehotel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/wevinokovirofokewowabadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/zigolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronanemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/55067038357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/gabukefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/janudofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e02de79f8d4dc3b9b4a791958fb34b4/givaxojipilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/17193565551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/mavugurizinobasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/39213724640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f05b1fd83---13359919485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/99814045327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huynhgiabaohotel.com/uploads/FCK/file/74644623870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74327864829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/69870204348.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_off0000e321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE321 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 18632 bytes
SHA-256: f5e074c1ab4b8f8cec29d9a434dd2bc42716759a38cb2a89bdb0213537d3d3e6
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA8 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 1086cf741a75b941c8578e1c730d89a9ed37329611518b174817a086682cac46