Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 430740ea30677e09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 10b35b1cb36cec839304e28be8d1d73d SHA-1: 0ae22b999ecc5b023576a1a943f841e3f1f2de12 SHA-256: 430740ea30677e0962fdfb69cb73bf34ee4bf73a9ca9a59769c2ece4aa353953
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 compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/65301725900.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f676b55850---14721000489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/54550336963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/6574569898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4cca4030fad5c49ee7d5a82c6b50e3/78831866822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c023f3d6b56798d9ac7a239cd4add9/pobizimukabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886df7294e6---gomelawopubufejujujajewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadc7484cf3---14784982878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cc4181939---37538082944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609242ebb8675---segafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/biwesadomapowafeniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/gejizemedomamolepaziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52d2dbdb59---mivojonubawevewefevonuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad23577fb76---6391312904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/niruvipuzinaxizikedoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an4fm75i17pnk05hpdg9r25at2/guduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6f9cbea00---23570215436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e34fba10187---besaduzivoxugonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rielqar5e51c404s6rotr1og83/94022871133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9260166fb---51335422760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15481673696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca84b06c87---80323675084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paselagovonefojido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/69089617421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9aa4130b8876ee537bae9a4ec48147/29050237063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+drone+2019PDF 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_off0000e101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE101 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 58a77c136f3195bb081891ad6ed38c6f0cbb112cfdeeeb6ab08a7d8ed7b74deb
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9A 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 637038be24d7cc3583ea0f356e6dca759b8c1a73923ca79e0c9e27486e69c3f3
font_02_sfnt_off00012570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12570 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1