Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e30fe8fe1ad9a4ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 16:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 388a28c85c2c696b2010be951f0a0b4b SHA-1: cec21b7a2a4a3c186a8f626481abc9975001f8f7 SHA-256: e30fe8fe1ad9a4ea27e285db6fd5f9011f4b3e10a0d3f27aaf6c1d233b25bff0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercices+gym+douce+pour+seniors PDF link annotation
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///21461287939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-dogs.ru/upload/file/33523416105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/87193527198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/lowumobuzelowaxusiluwoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/guwijipowelupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb79d975712---19079022890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add6fe94da8---moforefuwigamubekosiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/5144996271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/sevogomatufixena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/vurabilowagapukozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/lumezilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/rifiketinunuwawedarurafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67784edf84---14197587130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/55880875022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b412b472627---26014661604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082daf8a0d50---korukolukaginejalufawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/28744571948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/wirogigesizige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee3db2fa3e---xibusinesomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/xurivumaxobevusuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/29525732628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/40942132423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqlms8iho86v6itkj95ekmf5u5/katafisivulegivegofepepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be10aa71d0f66ff08e4f6d6e667b64e/lirosesa.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B6 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
font_01_sfnt_off000109b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B0 10848 bytes
SHA-256: a1e6d9d704eb66762b106a9451d4d0ed4c93c66a0c7a174ec4de45d039a7ebf6
font_02_sfnt_off0001228a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9C 19596 bytes
SHA-256: b96dd9d2e9114c4a787c80eaf6d1ac5b05f72678f2014cee2ea781332e226ca0