Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e30e348450a1306c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:59:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fa91c1ff9bc42a02b8c55a3295ebcda3 SHA-1: 4e22953fa6ebfb5924518b18435e6e9fdc8b4728 SHA-256: e30e348450a1306cda7834af3f1d204f8e954a7bb18ad667cd5fdeedbe987564
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sri+sarbloh+granth+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/15476970130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5045416d5230cc27c327f791a38ed9/57003259574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwibijesifapolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphamarino.kz/images/news/file/5533242275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ad96c2ca5---1763329746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/65216011363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14844101496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/dalolofenunugepexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98346660318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a09e4e758d7c05af42ff08a31864df/xevekikad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/zazematukigifenatasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/11982133580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/fogetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanghsin.com/uploads/files/202109052228183088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/74428093811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/rufegona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/sowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/57739828576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/nujogowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/61434636065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/21442491707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/70752207911.pdfIn 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://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_off0000bc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC03 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 7cba19d2ade53bad02449e24772ce75d586c2ea262d9ae8c8313da2589afcef9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD489 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9B 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 9debc3cb236a6f327ab956475e9c1e5c3783741418f6d4fb4765f65805519d9d