Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf30988a0b2a7988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7768cb6f3997921da117a2de9be19568 SHA-1: c2f93136f9758451ba7535ad8384b45ed3c07b71 SHA-256: cf30988a0b2a79888c81db973a19a69dcd70841d7fa0505c23c1bf34fc869930
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with a clickable action, designed to trick users into visiting external URLs. Multiple links point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/fugojibaxazilopalalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/67496300548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/21728736961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/87578121496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/81361487442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a4189df46ba08a82f792788f7261221/89907388177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungder.com/upload/pagefofuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kluchar.net/klucharnet/images/file/91502842840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevorhannant.com/4389505712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/24890103120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/31700083251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23299959062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edb44ada36---topibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurashi-kyoiku.com/cms/dat/upimg/file/57559301674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70374609641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/jisutobeparexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/56457968403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/84500728865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/pukupewofotapunuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec1c3bb687---41480599905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/55498955577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/1400406023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/jopabevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/68568705309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ad%26d+character+sheet+fillablePDF 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_off0000b470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB470 9192 bytes
SHA-256: cec472d94eb3fdb0df358ebc6477a54accfbb063ec4a1f62a798cb8c4131dde5
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB3 14184 bytes
SHA-256: c7190562d0989d9403302fd7a76e1d34fa765a361884839a1b0388ff001c27ce