Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0615e8deed8ed099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cd5529f396ae4ed9958b6de379800f80 SHA-1: b690214e6619e9aa6b6381bd36683b1b7c43b460 SHA-256: 0615e8deed8ed0995feb0cb01430b72f432a70abbdb278d22accbe83f5b385df
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is designed as a lure, presenting as an image to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded URLs and the document structure strongly suggest a phishing attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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 70 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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+starting+with+letter+a+to+describe+a+person+positively PDF link annotation
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58628438089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/69638561930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/pebutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14110762628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dcf89dfb16---22086400029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/21301097816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11118495850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fef9c2d8f1---buzefirivawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/57482550613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/sesofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0cd23aff7---xoxavetuwabibilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210915215947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trumoi-khutrung.com/upload/files/32367995861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizecanreklam.com/images/file/sanuwubimevedada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19947721816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nivuxuxoxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395495b6d43---92209456060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pskov.agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/todono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/vulevumufogagupufugudabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41826873668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/8246853957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49846e57edd7591156d1f0385bec819a/94469285455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/guxezolerutixorefodusugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myreply.mobi/snappshott/editor//file/pidelederexegadaw.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_off0000b2d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D0 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 52c60f20bb9b77c804192e563583abd679d3dc1b2721f684e8b85207c9368fa1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE500 14060 bytes
SHA-256: f70a0e6bc7b7adb7f33a6360f07b0f69431069eb1fb4aef2ddb56575fff6b3ee