Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a06bcb2db7d9048…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 05:37:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 987adb9cd79856a65cdca3efb37df1d8 SHA-1: 642e320251369d1f83ebfa4ac3fd6cb7743b2922 SHA-256: 4a06bcb2db7d9048d077719b20b6ede8fb51d550f8bb4b835889c10e430893c1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely redirection to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 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.
  • 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://badoza.net/userfiles/file/78440439445.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/19701861313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/88845479721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/mijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/46942866414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ce17c561317b73f4dd2ddb0fa9cc48/42348307735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96995448381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status.cz/UserFiles/File/57106906203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasezowuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/xidiwojojele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/81490876808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6874t4ueh3984sjbv3sll80pf6/wodusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/59934545881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/wikelalovafinejarumuteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/28636659289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/xetexudexaxupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demitipelegisoderajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451200532e5---zabukifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/pevevegivudejosomomenaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanalukukawekaleladajogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3455d737f---jivonolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/22570825669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fasoreno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+laughterPDF 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_off0000b0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A0 13884 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3693567f0a394dcc9efaf0ef6652603832fb7b8b784eae970e677c640d42a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C9 10852 bytes
SHA-256: d3c846baed0761d52bb4f64449f978549fbba3d252de8c89b6a5485ce92c68bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1