Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b30e7eadde27a1ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 00:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cc7dbb5d1e29788ca3528f8630f3d2d9 SHA-1: 4e8bc05547b6be424ef936c9c17343a93ba284eb SHA-256: b30e7eadde27a1ad01542e0e75e041cf3bdd0504518de41ff0061114d9e4db99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a lure document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19igl32p778mr48im90uhcc9h3/nilaker.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666sbrfja0ok3jnp23sjsrad30/14604387925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/nigatofotitosewaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bij680g6c7h67hpqhjl6bb1b75/92184103567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr0hjhi3bm8abd9ehrpbgn5t2d/76730715691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bc800b504---kazoxupadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a87417c8b34759b13c7e73e7a8ab68/jobajenudorativafizafapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c759dc68334---14822281201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/vebesozalejemojizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/tawititol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/44979540005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/rotufuvuvekoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/36228640119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=team+war+mods+8+ball+poolPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD700 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 016ea8f23cfdd35d6dc37ac6ecaef683da0af4fd127d590e04293c2f694ff630
font_01_sfnt_off0000e992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE992 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 3a6d551799604629a73659a362cb837450f5ddcf39404fb158262201464a7abe
font_02_sfnt_off00011d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D41 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15