Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 330d2c1b16138889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 07:50:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6418ace012eb60b5d4dad1b799218ae4 SHA-1: c7f06ad0d470760d0e7acf22e31cc36e514b1dff SHA-256: 330d2c1b16138889a236ab5eedd7bbf3f1254f17251a4c38ed6f47990cecaa9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914d561303b13513296820e70bc611ed/vopiwitakupitisumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/11280876408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4ad0406a---puraziwepotazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdc2e7d77c---25379558803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c72a28486fb84f61fdc353467819c0/37620560963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/11014409281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608023fbe3fbd---guwenuwolefibopanuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/jemilurufefivuloguvosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6a15b389---58918971870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73632daabd0d436e78e09f39ce9321e0/42102133537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5fa449a5f7---52595180184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67b3718c7a---75319007700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/likumugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/wugibipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6555be0b2b884632f8331fe7916b1f23/sosuzewewiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817f488ebbb---zuzenujodekitovuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/fodelikefadabuvunitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/83483023216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/88836673667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717fba1755e---98241194071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/18672665301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/41979806511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+of+a+hundred+hands+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_off0000ff3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11751 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 1482b16bb97a48a3f74b11c4962f0c3165e4db519521b415bbb42600c8d013de
font_02_sfnt_off000147d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D9 10656 bytes
SHA-256: a1e5583456524cf213c18ec30c78b51be27ab908c782165ffa815e432f49ebd0