Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30edc62dc08bfb3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fa3a3c00f2656a13cf156d8b3dd3da8b SHA-1: f69bb20e975582e0b774056eb865ce463c449c4f SHA-256: 30edc62dc08bfb3c524ac83970010ab4c9a6da6f71bfde1b9d309be718742673
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080444386dd6---30044888563.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bdb5efb49---67050768395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulsaperstein.com/userfiles/files/73808634191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgu2f752h3j77439i53ds6d2p6/62368593884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/najakega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/fugiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6284a291dc15436e1161e398823abd3/96949554951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17089243953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095af4822729---fowabupiwotigapudiromaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719406ce09d---13430763614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/moperejosebetegomebosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648p9llmi5o35eam4qsrc3j9ii/penesudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4d78cc809---79060908182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngov3vum5avi7kj4jkncgt8cv0/24451679170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/30242694576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d217c22135---21724810097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba35853e0919623c9114b5f16da6e61/xepebifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/75125993797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/70859901186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/derajevasilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/bolugojufure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/15955679079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072437eab116---feniwawabovotikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/derawijobinofopabofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/99263814686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=resilience+meaning+in+english+languagePDF 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_off0000f158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001096f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096F 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 68e7b68edc4b48fa3dfd76a41c9cb6dd7f7ff24dae50fa1008466b54ad04d6c9
font_02_sfnt_off0001210c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210C 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 478946ac80f3d96ca0844938a6bb2b184567a9f6a3188b8581500df5048536b5