Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bf24108a7f162fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 96a48fe80088d51d8d70a672a8f9a268 SHA-1: 66f170b1ad2184e0b9cb38238f808f168d76f206 SHA-256: 5bf24108a7f162fb8d5ec80a148be50e1f7cfa25e6bd68b86fadc3d7a2c929b9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure with a link farm. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with clickable actions, typical for directing users to external sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 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://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29499267743.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/wukomalonaxavasisebuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/dipokarevijogukezizerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/69073246102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/82281866372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/35156011269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamthienha.top/userfiles/file/98310909258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cedffd8c9c---15881586859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/fuzowijonafako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/sekuwelidavixutakimaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e7275749a---5281753763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141398acc2b8---65174987672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e722l47gmae80h6rg7g8g40u2/59905148957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/35325747724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/53779291998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/23455376642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/jadubafewaxotamagopiresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/kidobilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/judazujatoxumoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/ratuxisomojekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/60037470962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/92786084336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/xerepokawitopofisajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tweakbox+android+apk+download+freePDF 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_off0000b1c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D9 14148 bytes
SHA-256: aa350f7abc8ab39ca9fc968409a98fc937895b2d82179364a45229a77371b7e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD0 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 720a6437d45ed74201625f6a0722a7ccef8dd51cf3e5856f03a294edfb560c40