Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e8d50f592bb808…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 07:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 88c7da7a81783fa4e793ab16dd978589 SHA-1: 5837cb0cf3558edc10672bc90b23ded9c1b78579 SHA-256: 30e8d50f592bb808c998428995a34dcfadd938258e6f521b2772f7f040aca43f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure align with common phishing and malware distribution techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skype+issues+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajirizureruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/77544809717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/dibunakunonorodujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/3842700702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/48733902163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioesflores.pl/obrazy/file/56018095500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210907233712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/49082359443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/42925966563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/pivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b77a5ef88e---68795983509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/kagoguzuwagukumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a943ac6dbe---76608209129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/zafazatumedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/gagemigere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58125087642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/guvexuriwekiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9257347bb0993eb76bd6c1c22c8a6f69/74318131753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/kolafukimibiwiwifavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jck.ro/userfiles/file/sigenuzefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/77661981700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69622592016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/4583989191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/6298252231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137984c450bc---retakikavukixoto.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_off0000c60b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60B 17244 bytes
SHA-256: e34fb9bf471f49b5fc1946d1299c603ffc27835a71a758b247927a48469758a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF305 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 4ac1c0706d0b14c6631e2a294584ca04d486fa0ed1d5c88683702fdb75a27de8
font_02_sfnt_off00010b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1