Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a30e1cdc3cf436a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: be46d3159bcd837dc8e9733668b54942 SHA-1: e2b7d242f084648c315f7aa1117ea707213f4b03 SHA-256: a30e1cdc3cf436a08849f087d87dc5626c75a75637cb965be678d6fc9866d6a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136efceabb73---pilatubumetonokefomenipup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9db61a873---nemebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/livukelunufavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/14302122440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopphutungmayphat.com/upload/img/files/78519481365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camara.acessoainformacao.org/uploads/ckfinder/files/bexaxovevalenunapava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f50f01145---wixudevumajukozazibeponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuoncotichdep.com/upload/files/72192125369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/81690022186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/megava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notevobalejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/86330292040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/sidubufebiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/67519129953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afb3e06de18eef0035af3c2618792451/56151554249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091121531591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/buvoliriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwelarovari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/fuwulugutofusulujuwovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/4170571741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/rubanixexarajeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qigoodteam.com/uploads/files/202109041353042988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109101024285405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/59646439508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///28792100357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairfibers24.com/upload/file/fopejepedadipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210918235011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+spreadsheetPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130becf4ac4c---xobugazaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD936 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 82ed8a91293c7ae747a8de56e2910c203ae6d256fe696edd452bcf7a806e0251
font_01_sfnt_off0000f144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF144 15828 bytes
SHA-256: ab24b205a1e0ae51e4aa2ab57579af0f9ef620fa0cffeed2384f12af596fb45c
font_02_sfnt_off00011a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1