Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30fc91f7dbf2929f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 09:15:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: af185b07f77d5d200a628e00c91695e1 SHA-1: 2fa0c6026880f53407f42068327e632849c99331 SHA-256: 30fc91f7dbf2929f6dee218a8635c26a5b3596c1f0254eb082b83847f5d2adb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and malware detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=muddy+heights+2+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/20020630698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/57661788890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/9475926817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/99153185466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/fareso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/bubitozapame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/pedirelapowomutuwili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/toruzupavatadopadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/bipawidofemefemufepawefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210913011635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/sesujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47443105121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqbu44re7iijaom7cb03kun5jm/jixefobove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/60265503605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servingltda.com/userfiles/file/fefexuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/88959278265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/33684632846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/bapozeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613faa5fdd4e6---zemefiguniwajesonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82986614898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/94198865034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372e4c6e80e---6942393861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/22124207921.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_off0000c7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDD 11076 bytes
SHA-256: efd5af2733a10f890e5c3936ba95743639c2df807cbdb0c23d1a8ae6b4befd57
font_02_sfnt_off0000f993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF993 18936 bytes
SHA-256: 94788156d6b2bfd639b56e21560335ada6da538d2f72e803f7970df16ee97d00