Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d304a3bf203060e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 286d7d07b64036698e7588340e7ebe36 SHA-1: f0d0f963d39cb72591950409a8a1866efccc6cf3 SHA-256: d304a3bf203060e6b8e58cede90bbf7ec6275a17f5fdb23c31b4c0fa3f8d9f1e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF containing a link farm, with several URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://mediacast.vn/ckeditor/upload/files/livanadufuluvekaxuvibesuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziditetaledodefikimedona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/40521388420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/43260076329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f7a7e5fc4---pidufodurelofozofubedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/ziruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2e8b756497f025b5ab513f0ec2b9fa/sokuwokedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf82af0f8be---fuvorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a0dbbc688---9242523016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/94401139685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcced7902dd---zalaxekotabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/1644306000.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/lejuzekomapisuzaxamapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.comfile/gitowozatosakebozuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeybazarov.ru/file/damumunanipuzimuzijaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/34243579047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1450c7184c16169c41bf0c8f7210330/91231318545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/jaxefejobumojelusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/zozuvusabunawerotejame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/58564676233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851f3830ec0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161166c546724a---63177506348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/laxojubavideretuximam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+active+and+passive+voice+for+class+6PDF 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_off0000c845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05C 11036 bytes
SHA-256: f59e6c53ce49fd060c438b3bb915416976419542ed567aac16a2d396621d4915
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0B 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 2a3623a1c57e3c5ee92abf37e0c7239d1fce7541d8c68567d123cce2dbf029d3