Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb30db49a59cda3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1d33b3c83a1c82b7c75e896aca791b6c SHA-1: 82f9e6710260be4d9c5d0868a7f51ccbc1d629ee SHA-256: bb30db49a59cda3b491b4a9a072ba3fb6da547d46c4100db91017c92e92fd207
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm with numerous external URLs pointing to PDF files. The PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK heuristic specifically highlights a link to http://carraracucinecomponibilitrapani.it/userfiles/files/54279474457.pdf, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+downloaded+music+stored+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61992110805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/61601973867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carraracucinecomponibilitrapani.it/userfiles/files/54279474457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/31839650605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/furobisujipidesiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/41187665407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/31735219586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/72392308238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/fedozajulajuvinexusijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343850c13f3---35227457796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/98122143046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/26910329514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/27779926205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/tetufenaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/keduged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-09-15-16-29-30-couRnJpV.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/10963877894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/wutakimotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/36506648971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.com/upload/editor/file/xirowawuzetawekumisulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbretail.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetegegesugozezi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b48a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48A 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 57fafef47c88375ec2343f0135d2fc17b35a9f6649fab0dbc4a6045292cc151b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE031 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 14c8702629382a556605e95026c307a7f3e022e20bb52232f6077e0ee8e63f26
font_02_sfnt_off0000f90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1