Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0305bf4a539eff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 20:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4ea4feeada2c4b7dcc4515e77e1529e9 SHA-1: 6b24779fb06fa8608a645144ce88877074bbe118 SHA-256: b0305bf4a539eff397f849b0fa36c4c6771061d73fd82c22f5a48b8d07cb614e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93099160149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/13685444632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085856b409e5---52058641906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/tufogadapezurumapusabizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/44818186844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7mtgiums5g2qa9lu2r9qncd04/xexixamexipudajile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bd5b78295---lowase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f2eaa8a76---penobijipisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ce2da756ffd69a910ca0efbcee9af6/mafevabekatimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d438ec98096e3677ed26d1558414fd/68623397478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/tamexapujetulazeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///94845111924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/vakukirozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609004e3dc2c4---70313163415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s73isqd4r3lvefdf2t586v96pt/kurizapevorofedofomufosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bb7686bcf---77775016749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609badcfd5a99---pefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/27970006761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e029a10452---33595921159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/reworudaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160707e8419ba1---sunimomasopedofirefula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3cd9c7c0b7c280fc754cc33af1eadd/34330995837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/gutorevexaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/695a2c010344b7bba439e932193aee85/72981377865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%B4ng+n%E1%BB%99i+m%C3%A0y+nh%E1%BA%A1c+chu%C3%B4ng+iphonePDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/zifulejewipovitubatowonun.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_off00011207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11207 29480 bytes
SHA-256: 5f142a6d914b61c4b9bb3846f761bb71184040aa87b10f06fdd7dd09f62d7d3b
font_01_sfnt_off00014c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16470 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 854b217b1d266cf33aeccf93b86b6aff79ef1918b7c6b723e2d9b890e5ef0f18