Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2587f82215501a17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b167895f6321d66dd5bef5fbe0829d6b SHA-1: ee09278b7e477dc14028d2f39f63a94730c8b1d0 SHA-256: 2587f82215501a1721b284ace75a42bc48260e24bab8d24584deceb1ecf5e367
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' heuristic indicates it may be an image-only document with an action trigger, further supporting a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

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 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://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojobeditunetesoxigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kelakewangshangduchang.a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210910_104303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2939e90d9bc186ed416fe4ba9d7712/babowarusapotogajubebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/53876081808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/14098038466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/zevixusoturogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5aeb76aafcd75efb755fb87cec32b05/nofoxabekusekerupabegabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/99547014331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/24372409184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5b43adee3---21826953292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210914123329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7e3ce06e8---78143923750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/88653940888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/62979046495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/34555890466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/80948816594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/77594592340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/tobisiletavuparivivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131140bac9f8---zuwapafivifumujatujegotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/82850105294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/dovaviwabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/24802563680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovetco.com/userfiles/file/kidobujivimovidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/manetoreles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/70486384752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=font+cache+mx+playerPDF 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_off0000b3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C6 13592 bytes
SHA-256: 443d136e56270440180e823a659a09af4d92d75800337ad1c1fba31c485ac128
font_01_sfnt_off0000d50d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50D 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 588e7d40a43138ccee102fc67e1890e6791d5143bf584b77629de31a83672ebd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1