Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e30a44b643b3600e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.8 KB Created: 2021-06-19 13:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e86d7a92a981e22aaa48f51fcee42609 SHA-1: 08ebc51e1f125b09ec00a3c2314a18804ffadd53 SHA-256: e30a44b643b3600ede0687165352540ceada13a37c41237c6e2062b913a768fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a 'book of community medicine PDF'. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple external URLs strongly suggests the intent is to redirect the user to a site that will either phish for credentials or deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parks+book+of+community+medicine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280101586547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf594246ca---miwisexovaxitizaxuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/92463820414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924d8a653de---muxuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/doges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c043666cd1a---fariluxakepevigude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb2856f775---wowamesezisenetotoxopaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a649fc1dee---tazumusewoxukobazebomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c5ab42f47---meziwonagaredesejukonorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/31525500228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jr6rime1uhlgf4hpu6mtrm6h0/sepera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a06cca41b---tulilegenezirijupekanuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884804d7e56---dorekujubade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b019110461bf5c3be64dce11189d97f2/mejexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c579405c85a---83040897415.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_off0000b0b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B2 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 47f3489c20bf977fc5bf7d38e0554902c5b3f6bfe6194f8a7c6f0dbc277233f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000c39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39A 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 392422c9148029be610a6ed91826acc867a3c5c0ea73c4d8b77b28bd712d8740