Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d30b9d8e6184a419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-19 22:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 997d4688b93c0f9ff96f8a7b1c11ab51 SHA-1: 9f7e15c25633802e4b1f911620951c5dcaa51d84 SHA-256: d30b9d8e6184a419fc488a274d31532f6b55181dbbb460f65333f53c9bb54959
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dc83130f3---zidozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/vakovibipemuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cf31cf5dc---30158794302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/nidakivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/nupizubusovuwaladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55c88461415812d61f51592d7a5e858/40120769174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609639012183a---wulegisegodavusadevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961f1063ad9---48223199316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/munudaravadanuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1die7mnnvedlhp3jrfgb6st5ls/6304871648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/8615877758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/90930993574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu97co4qe3d8pdei967bcb66a3/69981810128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/44929476884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a40c3c71b---30477506785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713b1a4648d---54876555643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jedugavoku.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=earthbound+rom+unblockedPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D9 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 6fcfa0c603ead6aab0154a171b8e0f01029ce926139796b251848099048ac54d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83B 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9aef7dbbda5f322f55680b096fb0f6f807ef9f7b053af062ef1d7404fb83c5