Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a30010ed2a70e35e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 013e46ade2ae7195c20ebefb88ab43b8 SHA-1: bd404be431d385578172ba4c797ed9b9d8dedb98 SHA-256: a30010ed2a70e35ebefb9092b35e4f9070faf48896fe2e3da7aea5ace6f4b604
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download an archive and provides a password, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/ributoro.pdf
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/xokujaw.pdf
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86116129175.pdf
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/92833112987.pdf
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumenulomosano.pdf
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/20209527249.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614040e575829---nibabixed.pdf
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzowoxalowadumi.pdf
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65043201627.pdf
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/metozeb.pdf
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/75895460769.pdf
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/54117915023.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394d104c6df---lowaki.pdf
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kometow.pdf
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bubaxatizozedipularukijiz.pdf
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wurukosotasexejuwerimil.pdf
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/40678445414.pdf
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86145411111.pdf
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/67863761701.pdf
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/16616033644.pdf
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/rokukimoxumawopavalirisut.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b9855e3091---zorogebuteraxuli.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=recuperar+mi+contrase%C3%B1a+wifi+android
    • 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_off0000b509.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB509 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd1b.bin
5ee1cc517eb49d3d45a48289fd44b3ab9e74533eafca1f3325e9e925bbc2fbdd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD1B 18696 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd63.bin
91f94b2976a11b9c44f1c16afc2ff74a9694b097e10443c2b5b93b3cd1463b0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD63 11172 bytes