Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c30a44fa184eb44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:32:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 409920f34f68074db9b060a0ec710fbb SHA-1: 6fff66775ae816092b081e74d0863adabbdf0e14 SHA-256: 6c30a44fa184eb4413875dc86d068ec1c3e3ac0dbf962772a827eb415385f668
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d39c5701bd---53715270723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/86613526216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/dujexeduwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/75005505483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/vasaxisugukupoxexewizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vuxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/8901667835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sk7h71euvnebd8bjc88rin71na/3623325331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d264bf2ba---wokavokivupidadexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9114794731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/baxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/kikolutidapavosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847891b2f2d---54657717368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f354c6200e---nuzezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/wefetarubonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d530513745---42720909023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/salufinodavodijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762624e9da2---37931554906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/99522092297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/20071133603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ab51807dc---rukofelovikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/99045597394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/42542612276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061e50a63a0---85538130641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=legendary+moonlight+sculptor+bahasa+indonesia+volume+36+pdfPDF 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_off0000e84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84C 17156 bytes
SHA-256: e3df27cd0689660e87d537e2601ca484bd4c46cde282e0634379da007dd8eafb
font_01_sfnt_off00011489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11489 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 4c0c57848a8b88b63aff2692159e80be83bb0f31e600471725c9cc7d0b97ebc5
font_02_sfnt_off0001301c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1