Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30bbd63333bf945a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 224297d18f353906e8ffc660b5f64371 SHA-1: 013ad1d98b3f9b9225e20667ba0d8a5753740c7c SHA-256: 30bbd63333bf945a60a84c21215328e07b3f780d8a2e853f2c5c38d387504375
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, with multiple URLs pointing to PDF files. Heuristics indicate a 'download button' lure and a 'compromised CMS upload link farm', suggesting the document is designed to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/maledijemagafeva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://khocabien.com/uploads/files/91067676787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/66835072403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/6688657096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/luponigepuvumuxasole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csp.hu/editor_up/61438384606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/lexejugugujagomegora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/1403_20210910193246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/16222004832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/77050576973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvmklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wizexuvewawezozorosese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopejisereguxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d22e4eaa549ab37de7e7e7d308f846/31176138142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45094445111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/93705502418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131af3eecf4a---saliwibolafurepavuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/35912407253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79575588539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137228205803---35693299420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210911190131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/pitejewiwuvoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3b4dab592---mijapemuferapinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pixel+3+launcher+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000dcfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFC 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 17470f20ac7c7780a6f809c9eab3770c1574f2f35860a8a860d7f2d0e4f6f0d3
font_01_sfnt_off00010d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12598 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3b0c9b233777808cf2958dff31e707a2f845a5e440a32c564657eb99496ad2