Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b138a043412b278…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:07:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 680f86139999cd10ffc9da560f280113 SHA-1: 180e84a608a31040b41f31d80ae50ec8be8d58e1 SHA-256: 4b138a043412b2783cceb3cc16b6ab0325d21a28608cdebe952b5c8d500f29df
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is an image-only lure designed to trick users into clicking a link. Multiple heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with one high-priority URL identified as algorithmically generated. ClamAV also detected this as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/wutobevutimojafuwejob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.org/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/21238348742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/96778400129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbaffc46a068c01f35b6fabcd84811ac/velimobusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dafa8r1hsvoeec528ga6cqav35/69032805443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/xewatupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/vasoralakekofulaxodenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210828101452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qcfloor.com/userfiles/file/4260079120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/73511897677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/25/file/20210625_232410_108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fbaddb160---lisusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52c800219d4b22ac79848b2ee56486e/79499697776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/dolidevoruzezajotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a34099e82---xuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12939101260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d94a07db4---vigoxujinusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c80e6c057a886ed677200381b6a6a0c/20695868300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/sobimidiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783fdaac7de---76147335411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=icd+9+codes+pdf+2018PDF 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_off0000b00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB00F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC821 13676 bytes
SHA-256: ce9d61a84ec3187713dbd017adca141520e3104a885d6733dd825d274d3535a2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E0 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 748e33929d9a757f82b2729a91296e97ad8ac7894de8fa739f7fe1042509e745