Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d930388c9562692c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 738f77c3a90c5492a197321894ae4029 SHA-1: 3fd5b54cd1eeafa1f23bc55f17ea09a97a05ca5f SHA-256: d930388c9562692c2096c69152e71a66dad4016aac8194c33dcb595bec7f3c9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or direct them to malicious content through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/72729776856.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e55b9967---70142783240.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d996f3c0d64f01d50c9e95ef65ba3b46/36770874635.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca99138a2c---63187619988.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005e344d6f---forute.pdf
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/51432841217.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b5318131d0b0ea77060ff85b7c3cbd/fololegebasadazuxav.pdf
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210611_132746_1257.pdf
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/vitevirabilekuwafitu.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ce84ebb54---weroguxonorosexixo.pdf
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/dapilokomusafakeduduroju.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d99776d04d---19778521071.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2239d09aa80405837dc2dddd41aee0cf/xelogovinuwuv.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723c18b9192---37312916798.pdf
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/garelegesovetogaf.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/guzodi.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853b6a64135---94861401019.pdf
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/degunukabek.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/110b2c8a5f7c6814421eeb8de95c60b4/kubelivekeza.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a03481f2c4bec0d6359265c66f925fd/xapimez.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4d0ed763f---62372836156.pdf
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/74162408722.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adef1cbe12e---34954977007.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=small+white+ball+in+soil
    • 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_off0000f5bd.bin
ff534ef9dd339ce6c87c646926bf154c0012194aa81e8782d6475d61ca79159e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BD 16484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012012.bin
a04421c0fb57d257e7467f01326f27171af8e78bbc508c6fcb7a48cd4e01dd02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12012 10572 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013807.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13807 16792 bytes