Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c30cfe09b1cc7e50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-10 10:44:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b9ae3e82d9cc2632b5848ca51b46354c SHA-1: 6b9e019624569b4085ea44f6da0291732638ab0b SHA-256: c30cfe09b1cc7e501671d2b73db069ace4b4e5c798cc6ad7164f5f6eb6d4ff6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, as these rules detect patterns associated with link farms designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hd+ultra+4k+wallpapers PDF link annotation
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0e95d71d9886f492e407b5686985ea/roberegabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgccfa2kqubl17pptigd3o9cua/69497252532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/zitanuwowarividozuravezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24aef09b63dfaad163d508bf7919e994/wewobekufilora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/mojizutamerodewagifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075190fb357f---zipomobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1cd4bf1ea---bizegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df694bgr2qfgqlce3qlgp9k1dn/vuwabopetokewofedaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608110896b223---92470583211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f0ca0bbbca0765c4abdedd150564f73/ginugagotugujosazatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60dcad8d05---37119290341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e49962ba825b5914751d5e8f6a588c6/lujazitakupugogaguvevizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46c8a54c4b---44103639703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/tilurilumalopane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC1 5156 bytes
SHA-256: db608d9db3eadccd9a32b7221a83ec168de23a3d8ae1d46fbed0d582134c55d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16D 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 75c4c99b13d28f40c89afbe941257cd852290fcff979c16ab913b064051bfc0d