Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6082b14a498f38e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 01:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7932caf94da35609696ce13f53c1bab9 SHA-1: f85abcb9c69c642edc8b08846a953743e4c6ecaa SHA-256: 6082b14a498f38e3fdc62ee44482ed37d914a83f216ced3ef9709dee51de9a1b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF employs an image-based lure, typical of phishing attacks, to entice users into clicking malicious links. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, likely intended to host or redirect to further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

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://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad97893c4d0---gigafuxivufex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d7a3ad2ca---11168580656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/gaxipadavatepusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41910340532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/vusivenowixabefupasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/55303047760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609499c741432---durabereberoxugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc7f3d9a5b---jejugirona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/40134082731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/60958457587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/82783920425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gfmq29vs972k276vcj7dto4ub/42173505607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/25193312674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16046672650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/89089505131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmbsqpd0hh31gufautnn4l4im0/36127914599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/9038776001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/36627942525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1a5653411---66580914073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/35816637862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/95799972542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/5943971522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/denowutorufigagorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=does+thrustmaster+work+on+xbox+onePDF 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_off0000b143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB143 13752 bytes
SHA-256: c13c50ffb823bac072a641e57338f85ebc9cbae1707babed61092fa5f6482684
font_01_sfnt_off0000d25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA74 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 74d14ccb1812575bcb772db4e6334c17799726cf45d186cdcd8ebcf4b326367b