Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 362d85c16cf292df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 04:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 869952958f9b9b76b4ce785975c9db10 SHA-1: 9b39079ea750eb73cd7536adfb0e899d971b31e4 SHA-256: 362d85c16cf292dfb8c2dc2cf7f0e56e61aa7aab83c16d68216a485f036f470e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a single image and minimal text, suggesting a screenshot designed to conceal clickable links. Numerous URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content.

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 https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/rapefizowovafolunato.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/36191026195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23a17cb1a56df3f1904a8cb86904f3d/kufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_226A3CACA58F271E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartusb.info/images/library/File/87442273123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329d66a62d7---13705204925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54197359758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85015707059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/nimobavafedadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l84mdvptetj7vda3emogkivqcr/kafadufamaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sf25tdg0bm23k1otfaube1j3k/wagevevumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/13431156998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/28177667307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c033cf6d27292e466ccfb28e8709aff/20310001085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/jivabasibekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/30399583059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/norawomamumimonazukafuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matraci.info/UserFiles/File/devawiwutavigodinupisoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedical-yub.com/uploads/file/4233688328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/27327536185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/26571240662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/78137974327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/wozarixaxevebefugofufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushifactoryazusa.com/uploads/files/74347401560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=compress+1gb+video+to+10mb+androidPDF 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_off0000b256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB256 11100 bytes
SHA-256: ab73610450ec4f427bd10223efc5ecf724e829285695b9f41fdab965a561013e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDC 14284 bytes
SHA-256: e4e4ed26c4d7c0e73c3f76d61db2ea18e85c273dc6ebb340644d26ff98ad3218
font_02_sfnt_off0000eef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1