Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a307ece2d02bbd30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-29 22:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7557c31ab899d31799d9fc78a9f4f354 SHA-1: 05fa42670fa5c3e4b91e13585e891a880e5be042 SHA-256: a307ece2d02bbd3082bb71c0fd1a54a12975ee961c6d9a0c7ec5b1ba3b5c2522
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, combined with a heuristic for a download button lure, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document likely aims to trick users into downloading further malicious content from these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098397798c31---83422585212.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/bivofuzetigomasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/gujuperajabasuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8cc6cfbffe9467f59b67077d7479549/xugekagugirefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbbe78806c9a7b5275ea37253fd91308/99547825015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/592201c0bf3d3a396e69a733da131b16/27715430406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a416e56a16d---73975777088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa04bff59e9b93953722a6002e9463f8/45069265845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c95c85e12---surepiluxefurolomore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a7ee8c3d5---jejilixisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c5dd28b0c---zujutunoxazixizegezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20413f74ebdee8613634e9b7cc26d4f9/suvebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/21100487623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/51097928362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6gvjf74cske3mcsnencslhi1/fipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlander.sk/grafika/file/85848862642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095856b39ffd---sufiruwukogidalujusegabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca41f69d753b056fad543d584a21707/58392074046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/fijobuzumaguwevosinivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabd0ec86df---dakafexiwaxakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/15746424356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/37682213224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+v+for+psp+androidPDF 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_off0000e06d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06D 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c23724ccd86e30d6341c066c32a5501063ad441994a81e87fe5852e38bb297d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E4 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 8c5d405f7f230561d4e2853cb78b8892da64ba58a4c0a77cba8c02b8a86701c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001288f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1