Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8b1506663f6287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a617cb0e00e2f078335a7fe495c4cf6e SHA-1: e25abbe6507e49d9f0dfe5650e5fbe803dc6edc2 SHA-256: 4e8b1506663f6287b256f2c76f41efef1ca1429fb4295bc1cf3650d0c3941828
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, designed to trick users into downloading a file. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/dekatekipupukigago.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/bexasakiviwagunuzeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210917_140925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5690292620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremedriveline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujuroler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614438b0314e6---purajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/rirefofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/mebigilajagadukiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/nedasulajejelotebazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/nomeburikativuvaxesazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/2152776005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpshardorawal.com/hemkunt/userfiles/file/37943312011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/77107331929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads/files/202109031451144975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/letitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/lazegufegisuwema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/jenuwogajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1e90c67b3---dotumevebulovexalokaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/jofazerajidekofuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/genot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wajanakifipulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/57858652491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/54307715676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50193939212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133427c1dc3d---vamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/86305859578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sims+castaway+apkPDF 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_off0000b7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFCE 15956 bytes
SHA-256: 36aa6cb9e07314dab15bcc137dd6a4c29e5ab02e7a45418185053794d83be46d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8ED 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 7899604d60e66d8b035760101d2f27537bc8a75aa45c310d0665ae4da0ccb678