Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c30dc5879c6ffe58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1977d39cf2af2a55a1d44f32ea6137e9 SHA-1: 9bbe1566762cf159e233c21734ef538c41dd71f1 SHA-256: c30dc5879c6ffe589dcf188a068dad461a125f1eddce6b6c715df9372aae20c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and disposable hosting detected. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs likely lead to further malicious content or phishing sites, aiming to deceive the user into clicking them.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://kaies.net/upfiles/210907192101329215yt838p.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/zuwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2mtic7vf9rus7qeqinahffj2/70006290553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/kuzeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14423389389a5439e892f3574f57ddc0/livodelefokati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/bijonuzuvetazudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63223093047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901225910201508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95788115831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/rikogilumaloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/sitawowupiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366d14495b8---gomoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/sunedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/7985486257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/gopaxoduzebuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97339294829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/21697919992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alident.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/xusibapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafavukexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/lemifuwiroburuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/96364414996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/kawisewiwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/90032426613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=canon+in+d+classical+guitar+sheet+musicPDF 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_off0000b9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EC 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce4004f98d2f21f020d50039da03b9ea1dd04f77e0c8d4bef1b37ac063a9074
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5B 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 0728776bf6a250da595933938305803239e843d2af0c878d55d4fb969acb284d