Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 430f87099589bdb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:56:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5483c34bd94d0310de7027b6c34413f1 SHA-1: 8f544e7e1f09276b7d84f9d49451e4cf40801713 SHA-256: 430f87099589bdb95846e43d1ecc76c28467fd160f21fbe5bab982f7990b6081
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc1aa0ffc3---41781928601.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/viwulimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/37607499358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa239196b725d96acee86d705b730173/71966914839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/jofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/15416296985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/65664738225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/15657229476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844a232ed2---24143196218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ea152a62a---96489559385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9eff50f490f95f03d6c30a95f4be36/96430109465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc70dd6a111476f53d14246b9a5ec5a/pexutopovalasurafupofaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff142ebdf3---44547733562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/32899705773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/fikajepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26d8b9b80---86065188551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084267d7d8ec---nugipukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upv8jat98tsf94v1kc5qvfugpk/pajurunigatonepodoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/13936645320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3a1466bafd6ec1d738698b900d6e26/kugefopogexojesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/47025494841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d699c05c4a93922ac5c0c081b2d5ba3/sawufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=single+replacement+and+double+replacementPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FF 11004 bytes
SHA-256: f64364fdad52bfd68b723dfd831e577cbd8cab3fcf2780d051636f9529f422df
font_01_sfnt_off00010119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10119 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001192b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192B 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff2dac0ee6fbce5da373f4a8c9bdcc986c6bbb918a3f64cf53af2964858ba31
font_03_sfnt_off00014549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14549 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68