Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 417b20ff752162c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d139a397219458abf3fefd2eaf10afe4 SHA-1: f622ce33f3783145445817522e06aad519a92c4b SHA-256: 417b20ff752162c8f8cac2ab0fedcc757413b480ce246bbd7216657e6fec18e5
196 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. It contains a screenshot image designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to various compromised websites and disposable hosting. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 8

  • 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 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091402045273499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fu-ko-property-agency.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/34944206030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/37919955107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/losajudogafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/3293164261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkp.ru/upload/global/file/dorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jexuroxivusebawimidete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142332a5aa9e---bewuninukoleralol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///85480459474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51471465609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/14945395096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/zefofobovirigetiwewizigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d232bd9122eebe10cbe6f73679df9989/63780169806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1c528f2ade53b46028dd4552eca61b/50370354109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/57160521943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/kirexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/62475519867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/fokalebipezuwekaveguwasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/pepakanetexakigakoxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/pilagufisonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trinitysportsandleisure.ie/userfiles/file/wofoxakufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejafekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/57937502557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cn+cricket+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000afa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA7 14380 bytes
SHA-256: 68f4bbbe1c740d2e9995aeaee7a7922f2d4efcaceb1294d2b89dd51ad2a6ddf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD366 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7D 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 8c0fd024da955f40c066daf204768682a794b9c77706bde0e0d692f00c24a34f