Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6308ed4920acdb95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-18 13:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3e07ae49c5eafb94ddd994a7dab23b17 SHA-1: 030e948c1021445add731a2bd71b5781886491ef SHA-256: 6308ed4920acdb95f0321810add67d9732ad7c6890331866bbe4718c3a9cea83
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to popular game downloads, likely serving as a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7310

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+xenoverse+2+apk+obb PDF link annotation
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4601dfe5aa587f32c14a4054f49ccd6/20080786495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607883d907797---doromujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a0b61a5f---lonuvakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7a7f74ed814aa2175e403c2d9b8439/sodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba71164a5c01a6d8173cdae7bdeb10a/demalobitoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670bdca313---40035843656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210617114733_1775741977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0eb51f66dfb074ef5fb11c62d499ed3/zexelogumefokuvatovifidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be92fa494cb---gegezomevotativizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0914dada862acb9215a130b99a3fe8/55615300660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/vomatujaxafokana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e1697504a---88449083350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0f6c3770---63654735543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a045c004b87---terusologutafozutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000dc50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC50 5500 bytes
SHA-256: b414cb685f6b5bae4d2c8833c02ce05635e1bfc1b05cedd738c7db3b24870be2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2C 11880 bytes
SHA-256: 2579566dcdcc8f44a7cf8c38fd12541afaad006c1bfe18e56a1c61d3d31fb1d9