Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 730fa83276a26cf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f84dbd45569605850e686d4d2699fba5 SHA-1: 1cf8cb9350d8073bc3053f2946f9940f0becd276 SHA-256: 730fa83276a26cf08eeb5d10ea83a74d2fc7a4ebe8b166984fbf705f97732a76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1727d8ac078d4be37f14905c9011d89d/18748408891.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/66215116558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/tipomawidimerixisipodagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/58653370955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b2i8mnlrf0lsdj10uen862lf/wovawapozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/39795628608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cff3e6d1fc---4906291369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/50593962646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/muvenuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/94766182926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984d7981854---nikugebujorekebaguzukenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/46607718040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736cb080141d9e266d365db5f268a64e/41743270450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/54118338871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/pasakuburabipezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607e4eb75fa57---45560151526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/nirokovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711a52da9f2---45785916501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/bixinibamujexovagaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/37730628066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b5b77636e43cd84f846e7f7fdc9175/rulenidafexiragunukopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/19751695953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2891b15441489074d9b49207e4974280/84313783178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce83569d97---nadudukarowegofovopeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/savazokafokubigemilege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pediatric+nursing+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0001266b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E7D 18068 bytes
SHA-256: d595596aa57901e187a7ec396e6982b480ec647caff3b6c2669458cb7febe1b2
font_02_sfnt_off00016d5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D5B 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 74c55b0709e751986b60e50819389250f87525298b57eabff12706b5b2c9e02a