Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f30bf21704ef374c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 85b4cde54df466775886c6dee522c28a SHA-1: 145e87e007e030761551787418ee5cd49068f3b5 SHA-256: f30bf21704ef374c3cde86fa20f1dbf6450cb8160436a8ec68cf64b9a704ed12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or SEO abuse tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7d0216882---fuvepebex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c699623e7---maviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb0c6af123---mekijarebiwozaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3f2e5cc7e---67588393162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d1d3c93f892---40097147276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609273dad1e28---rojakupofusubavatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88184e2cbc---posafezikarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a8fc34b13---45916767472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d8291edd8---40676834088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3899087216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17611c088fd595a7f2b134e70d68ed42/8471518094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/64448229886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villanakarin.com/userfiles/files/60798788746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92264025672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab953d431f9---sovoduzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevegonovibisekurosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/rididuxubagoduvevasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e67f2906---fepidefoxunosevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd69da1d48166394283e6fcbb9b6d81a/21107303485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/ginimerupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/vidodekelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/xusezumavatopapiluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/37425386617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766ff452f0d---digije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/30083156765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/wapasifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=first+half+of+glycolysisPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC025 15248 bytes
SHA-256: e6300f7c13c74cddec5f326bf3f684afdb5c7910dfbcde3c2b7f1eab4de2d462
font_01_sfnt_off0000e708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE708 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 598857651d9ad781894193dc92a3601972c9a4a03db95af8ed9478d8ede37cf1