Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f30bc34f8a45e40f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 32ef352c98bb226ef7b04065c1daea28 SHA-1: 009eb8714d7074315b0a0bd0134932f41cfdd7ea SHA-256: f30bc34f8a45e40fdd657d39d351d7f160673390ee5186d8667349922921616e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The PDF structure itself does not contain executable content, but the embedded URLs are the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a486f460---sumavajaxukukudokap.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hufiles/letisafaxubox.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bee0c75663---69285807784.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caaaeea4dd2---50876520862.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drbnqtgu42r12tjsaqqetdgeej/jukikam.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dce8fff85a9b0929b92e441aab0df4b/49903699704.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/29639532585.pdf
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d516b7b66e9d05dd5dae8807a7813e/48212894277.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086aff6d1f1f---59590727993.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bafd839a28ab93aefcf645b31643d3dd/vebobubivufowureto.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af00b7c929---32617132933.pdf
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a10279b1f5c13361a6b1cc144b4bda/18011169250.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/69340521593.pdf
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511d0e1e269e01c684b0bcfa923941f5/10517592923.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tomcat+is+an+open+source+web+server+that+provides+a+servlet+container+allowing+you+to+run+java+code
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed6bdf43e5f5b59fd70310a13a8a822/mifofitoxirejilonupo.pdf
    • 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_off00010a8b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000122a2.bin
de5e6a6baea8f5e036130aab0c587ac0c5b375b7b5b7df99e2171384e1d70467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A2 11560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d7c.bin
138ba93f6d9d103e7b2e837c55352091ca784bc9a2ac56929b09dc242291b9c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D7C 17828 bytes