Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e2ba23891eae750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-27 16:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 6c361ad14273538678a095b005476c8d SHA-1: 69faa6c286f69a3ae9db0e39910052b8fe87f8cb SHA-256: 1e2ba23891eae7502e65c52fe6f5a90c576718fb444d7576483d368a1f730990
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF employs an image-only lure, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 69 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.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb443c0a06---duwisutananitotafagotig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/nurobadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f14d61c653300a5c4e57ac612e3ba3/20058737561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/zavipavafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/14146990628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210914040152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17611692512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/25964664689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/valuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/26602606562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/34627435101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/sifiresaxewanomemasezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/7402394121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/99455516204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bientannamhuy.com/wp-content/uploads/files/29639050644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muluxivezamuradamekukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/gulelaradajajonifoviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bd02004e93---55376668538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a29db7f430---74571232832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0805184abe7648e7377be24b9151b68b/68110725484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/43197030406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/43034908493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+phone+in+25k+in+bdPDF 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_off0000b22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB22E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA40 14380 bytes
SHA-256: b50f64656681aa1fd75c07dad45ed9c93e91018cd8ec1e8d8ca6b5ce6dbd6f08
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE45 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 434a777f5d69f617aa8cb42a603c51113c5b8fc51796e375bc83d8e6c27bde50