Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a3e6d312947eae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-02 20:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8c1f19cc3df467437e956b1df82d330d SHA-1: d226b9380d741397014f547a60e34745106335ce SHA-256: 4a3e6d312947eae337777649663a832f3a014d8be1460dc741a58a08c506d9a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The numerous URLs suggest a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site.

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 70 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://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210906145223.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelspace.pl/userfiles/file/tuxowokulilobepolunupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/zujatunegadudoximuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/83260314020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/09/08/suveziviweboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/zonajodovanivefazatutetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maradonasalud.com.ar/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45644724778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/65963678059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021092508570123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/lujebasajogozusasosuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/negotovuruxewojizaraduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apelhijau.com/contents/files/93330942242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesoxixusabukuvurepevupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37383458988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/siperoramemivonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/moxaruwujogosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f02312dd6---savoxidezineveviteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/pojubufapuxarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevisewiveketuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16151e7e7aa81b---86001070699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/zekudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/rilavunerodapitimubitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.info/images/fcke_files/file/19065299124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ef7e4015cb865c2c35efa0b0b4941e/40936742260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/620b2390b17287bf2c0a3691ce6bd841/venonivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ecosystem+diversity+definition+environmental+sciencePDF 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_off0000b449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB449 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC60 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 5551c9920be8702647355d4fb0225d42b0369ddadeee12f853bed184d8f1584c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE549 14372 bytes
SHA-256: 81653ce16f51b3e2341eb23084c42b3aa27291865e92a3b217139d8f4490e305