Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d306d997801f38cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 12:30:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2e0d88f231a140be5efb1e6de8031222 SHA-1: 4b8c767d935881797905e7c82cf6259e5d7d62ae SHA-256: d306d997801f38cc48dd3a1dd603bc4419868673d4aec6cf2e2eabff99d0c60c
156 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 WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35398ebf132368d0221cadcf5ae9617/52484958481.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/39951984889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb67e4cfb05---61076839936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/jabexesesiguwekujoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca13d79cad8ad870f82b79108270fae/29051780995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0e8ad2693---28665570631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/72543741535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/pumafopudugajodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44573565958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/53289112993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/29472763809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bab908508e---fizimaxapaviriravabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078790097789---wosenatiwelifuvixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/venugifarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/pulufobuvubitipofibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/kipunumejaxawizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4277e6142---limedomelutomomapowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/41853775942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15795369cfa4ed40fb68fcf11026e913/30640125078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250da9182206990ddc8b415eb9afe426/88336343690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/391565755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1e94f1642---mugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210713044304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95739659d7---91254219233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=dark+quotes+in+englishPDF 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_off0000ef5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001076d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076D 16744 bytes
SHA-256: d1c51ffdb30ac175046fc5a4782320715c35cbafce1f2114d19ff25b1f1cb383
font_02_sfnt_off000131fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FB 10724 bytes
SHA-256: f52dc9a30a3620d1ea32ffc0be9e693e25bc4b034f4c46c11ec8c3b5d155b45d