Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 430bfcd2c03bd968…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 18:42:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8383590cdd7b330f2dbccad8f29699b7 SHA-1: 76dd8a2cde727f122cc1e66015575e2723544ed0 SHA-256: 430bfcd2c03bd9683c14ef29602689e7bba13bda948a923fdb3b5f30367ec8c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to a tutorial, which is likely a pretext to drive users to malicious URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ioptron+skyguider+pro+tutorial PDF link annotation
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/dimodinaninunabirabamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57f9dce1009acab0ecb34cdfc89c81b/wowumanugikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d026tj3k2n3ofhjlhu5l4f12on/xepolugapugotivofajukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fe5cb1802---bopeponigepixozaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/52984878290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cec8ab88f0---79018516731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efms17jvs2vfuig20nq2n1lbj1/gisitevefebowetanomikador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6dg4edf9cpar64s5ntgfea7bh/jotixusewosezajejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc44b3ff4e99c863360ac40f42eea02/78767639978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4vmaml6s87jvk2s0vatefe0r3/7428063671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/31825466749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/28760426038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/siwaleludakusexedogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609248aa00172---55331916915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o3n9ja1j032o7b1kb0rtgl5e7/315565746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a521e0e1ed5---22221829689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E1 5228 bytes
SHA-256: ec755987e93fa92f4de23c60a924ffa677b44190e2787cf8dc1a947bc0438baa
font_01_sfnt_off000108c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C8 12284 bytes
SHA-256: 7dccc1a16fbe08d76553cef47bf8baa2d0019476a8efd3ce7f8a19252b6230d7