Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 330d43bbd6a2ecac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 10:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f4f21a7c772f2a3a79590a6f6d9539bd SHA-1: d3522ac30e65bd3c0d95f4f6f7d3340163e8f1e5 SHA-256: 330d43bbd6a2ecac5425319261911bbcbc1189c91ed4543817f6171b65c1d0b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=qual+a+diferen%C3%A7a+entre+o+csma+cd+e+csma+ca PDF link annotation
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782c1d70c69c3bc7e46fe081930295c4/44214067643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vina2002.com/uploads/files/kikiropuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f61d68659d---34262603279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3559274247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2900a52f34---27693052863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a01652b8bdaa719d2fff47a5ab29e9/97723951023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021053123193319888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82af35144a---fevatefonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/85157336455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/93356365947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cb76174fb---86391172581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/27656734606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/zawelokodawonedijumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/zebubakesagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/584791e58394ca4db639cea0164ddee0/luzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/mopadekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/gepanukodisarejedekixagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/powuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/51395800356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/17880234122.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_off0000da16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA16 17800 bytes
SHA-256: ceb976cb61abfb14e8826f1f380d42ab332c58d1ebf3d17dccd5dded86f0d3be
font_01_sfnt_off00010665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10665 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 5e11b281cbd747138b0182384cb94ea36b83f1bc8f8848f4c1cf26f86355f18c
font_02_sfnt_off00011faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1