Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b30f4bb1af129707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 07:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf646174ec732d755cd0f29990bb78f3 SHA-1: d9e18baae7c2bff3c7da48656511d1f963a2528d SHA-256: b30f4bb1af129707a29af3920657be52a14c712f2eb6ceabba4ed43bd663aac9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an intent to deliver a second-stage payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://megatex-plast.ru/pub/file/99065074356.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otrkhm4pevkl52u5dm6uc2hor2/97800828710.pdf
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/dolunezigukutetuvozukade.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613726314a7bf---90050039307.pdf
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/towumumen.pdf
    • http://shamayachts.com/upload/file/27102737808.pdf
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/fikozilifesimepubomujul.pdf
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/89490735915.pdf
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/dudizevovidawak.pdf
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/2089459035.pdf
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/xotosemogejegiz.pdf
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54199221843.pdf
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13855752488.pdf
    • http://thcsnguyenvanhuyen.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romidukesaruve.pdf
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/2235477597.pdf
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/jogunovikako.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396a797e9db---fejatugokumujiwabi.pdf
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/leluluxofirezeju.pdf
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/4634934277.pdf
    • http://vet-spb.com/userfiles/file/mupagijiziluvumidupo.pdf
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/36802353021.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f28047c789---jafuxamaxetemites.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/54602126780.pdf
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/xibesumibatebuvuzerowad.pdf
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/mebofadur.pdf
    • http://steffis-strassladen.de/userfiles/file/texogometifulufi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=yts+downloader+for+pc
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dddb.bin
b4df6d5b12a71f882fa1e33271b63ef5a502c13bbd31eac838db5ed8b0248274
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDDB 17628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010aef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012306.bin
764691cc72000af741e638e4158b19ebf3803732e1096683412e934a98ddb2c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12306 10592 bytes