Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a13f9864fec5b12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 01:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4629237b5739a1c01f8e4d2f75868a4 SHA-1: 9ed10190b291755ac7dd6044d83bce971849a827 SHA-256: 4a13f9864fec5b12a20a70fb6e55d529a0a3b502dd8ea451ec1078eceea0ec0f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure, likely containing a screenshot that conceals a clickable link. This tactic is designed to deceive users into visiting external URLs, which are often hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 71 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://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0d07b21e0261b839afa67432c779cf3/jugofodoputaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210716221302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210625_182508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epsilonsigorta.com/files/22495267193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/15808697255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f49e4e4e5f---15461464908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7021826405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095abb45a6f8---41993271871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf5f5a3e1e---bunodifomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/migojalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210621_4DF91F3400A56990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3764e3e76994770aaa590109ab93e985/dezawavufisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21918c7d22---vutuvokovadofufatejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.upperhousedev7.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxegolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b7d5ff67---6432710259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887b5db50a8---fatifugezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/30613720712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa64c49999ce0987e0c9e2f061f8f5f7/mepavefabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c2ded3a41---68429798894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/wabatujinawegojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/zomotobogamukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/72237147916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74803545723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/limaxalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd48709bcff9f6f19663c05a6555a78/16189902276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=salud+prohibida+andreas+kalcker+pdf+scribdPDF 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_off0000bb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD368 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 75c146ca7c3d0fca383f1b003e4faa066e71c33a65bb1906c4bd52667d10d0c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAC 13828 bytes
SHA-256: 1dcb91e48962b4b570dc3c6ca3174203e1f93f2d5b23da32811eb6ac19239087