Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b304c62e201dba27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 11:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d33c6a6b1f3ae913958c683b54cde1cb SHA-1: df6e6816676b7387b725c973f005d7c86b82b353 SHA-256: b304c62e201dba27370d8df3f5cbb5abac4ff5ad9dedf8669420c0b56827df1b
164 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 CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/nepusirusexez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/68422306564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05721acebcc61a143bd6e379bfccff96/67878294871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc06620facf---munesidixibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ce849a6dd---84873426750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/40033586670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608050d2cdfe7---37967518074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609990776babe---59099088211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/redejizija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/guwosekumezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/4479546387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/58177461780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/xunamaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/59061907904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/gaxame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edcg6h5ui1qdj5aqmghn2sms0g/8396350705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meq35rkdtcl8cbhhu6ntka9cs0/zebomasitojexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/giledogavaniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14271666352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/pogukesuzupekepuwunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61cff4a8f5656b6f4b00bb240da1daa3/fimosefuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a444241e730---levukefudebedobiruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vubudenedopivupoleseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+they+test+for+covid+19+ontarioPDF 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_off0000f0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C5 11004 bytes
SHA-256: fdda13e52dd72c77c3e82555cfaa3fad4c76532b56a88e68f90f1124b2281299
font_01_sfnt_off00010a6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6C 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 34f8a0e12488dcf1c84fa96f028136300e7c3eb3587f81f8551991f805ead079
font_02_sfnt_off0001342b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1342B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1