Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a30f6e6501f4dbed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:32:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4536be2d0611ac5299cfd50323646088 SHA-1: b93779eceb795b888febe0aae4f89c5e253e898d SHA-256: a30f6e6501f4dbedf9a1d9a95e4bf14470e8c4a6864c3d9c8f3986511a689b67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to potentially harmful external websites through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/25282966492.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/wuvosunusisumikowasakegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579de838ba88f028a068e8b38a4b6004/86067173046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusozebudubunuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf32b53674---75177869587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/88913738898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/redanexamasatide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xefegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38j83op4goaq2rb8igpjgsf9op/30518338245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/giwewobuwulowusigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lssa3iri58h3s9kcm6lbrp059/90680077404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6fb6637cfe8eee42b011d9b17b21dd/videzufamezeniruduminek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3d82de9b3---buxorowanupironekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/78182488981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4006b39a42ec7757be161e6bb8cc20e1/wedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a0ca68852---58456665436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161117a2339c2f---suvifexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/45258453245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611742f2f0235---webopazadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11dae74b9c70d0deafdbb09ffac28eba/18745926313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611be88aa66cd---80259361451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608134e7c7026---ludesikanirifosetuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6c985baf0---62787379083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210902213102_si3uz9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ocr+pdf+to+word+onlinePDF 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_off0000b7d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7D2 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 33b8061d6f9d7fe92697b781e76ac20478c7b7a28e933130640ae0c92a702b8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF76 15596 bytes
SHA-256: e0d287cb922c3b2650fd92b6685d537908882ecc9f16d8cf76324a2ee4c4d573
font_02_sfnt_off0000f685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF685 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1