Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be73e7c42f061e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-29 10:44:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: caeb0fd857065f00779b4744faa17df9 SHA-1: 5efd0a8d1af4434e7c2decf701b155139e76bf02 SHA-256: 4be73e7c42f061e9998d5d73edb9fda56e14bc66161ee6bd58fd05787c86734c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' indicates a common tactic where a screenshot masquerades as a button to trick users into navigating to malicious URLs. Multiple URLs were extracted, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a campaign distributing phishing or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+popper+classic PDF link annotation
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84585240159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpiequipos.com/assets/images/user_files/files/21843487888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cca2f827e867ccb4c6eb21376b92fbf/285255467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153b7f7569be---puvufafitabug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/siguvufogunonapewufemizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/duzulikulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/gumamoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/58085254279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/92284681043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091005275280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f892a03ddb---94999224099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/kitasomevifafojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109051728328918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nosodifajigediwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88730636225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphoviet.com/media/ftp/file/menog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/56023647668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54553088385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50939932426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41725a8742b6e5ac109ebfab15021f1d/60949981363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foloxesijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/gofimojomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/61110592933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/kamokaxobexakobupoloditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467cd10453b---96777207836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB06F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC881 13832 bytes
SHA-256: d19de394c39dbb1814c61fe7e8bce151257a24162ccda88dfa943e4bf470fee3
font_02_sfnt_off0000eafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFB 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 2c9a4142f607141ed36d823422d5bfd6dff14a0fb8c399040f5e193647ff560d