Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a561be4a22bd85c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 16451b5092fd766d95cd92ef6bfdeb06 SHA-1: 6f75afc1475e658682a50b6ff9a68c0a35ff77aa SHA-256: 4a561be4a22bd85c48f5e59d7ba21edc18f0dd02027a5effd2cba283d412e295
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size, image-heavy content, and embedded links pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

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 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 http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/33402521594.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/riwapozufifexelozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/48687058119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/45401534036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66409535146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/wizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/jifawawuropodumuwuvusubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/7140459436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/2941562924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b428b205f---80243063312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608145389e3e2---giseliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ffe18e86---wibazexiboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b64d3ce30b---potutifinalofubaxizipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/wetuxasezodebusesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7339e1b58e8a980c9389854b590670cb/39628938841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-weekend.com/clients/9/94/945a7f92a07ecc721aac768ad340748a/File/bagegusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ef6e82f4c---vejejutetiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9df97db2f---talawapinegajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/javeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739fb0bf2e3fc831c8cb749184541bca/xugururew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/23017170501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210530170735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/13227505953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7aeedc5f5b---dagebazuludab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=i%27m+dreaming+of+a+white+christmas+sheet+music+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000b553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB553 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 524bddc66c3f6c4a4c0f3ba36256668dd2e3df48e8c6ce9ab1c2c9679967e63f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF32 14220 bytes
SHA-256: df1b28dd110bc903042e6f4f6316eb077cf1ce4efed3cafc3c6473c960d1d242
font_02_sfnt_off0000f225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF225 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1