Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 615730d8955c11f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-10-04 00:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b4d058ff07138e38d6aca765e5a7c243 SHA-1: 78e3691727d167b11b0ea95021de8c0b1f3d0e39 SHA-256: 615730d8955c11f2e0057b1c8651e225d099dca0ecef8c5884759fda21110167
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing an image-based design to conceal clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate the presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely leading to a phishing page or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • 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.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yellow+eyes+from+dehydration PDF link annotation
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210913111512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabletopad.com/images/file/59221609391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/12229350855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405dfcd23da---93490228531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/10631050617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parateam.cz/file/65425354129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3dd624da4---pifinanomasanidevafag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16312656551195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53312285c083a2ed3aeb643901b5507d/88789799153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/toluradum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322412089d0---26335535354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a7f34d6ea8a3eacd271f0e4def4c1f/17105703563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67456944095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42ci4cc0aric4a6dd7c5af9nef7sg.com/userfiles/files/modekumudewavefona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/ligukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/ratevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijufajug.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/2050879756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/24cdea97b2745d5e8a6ae94b95fd7435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613386e8b0818---61970079793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/21787833049.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_off0000b05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB05A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c86c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC86C 14364 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb4f12e3864e97ec50bf10c67a0c3f04ac5a1859d48533882b3932bf40156b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: fd4bbb740d6546c12760c4a357f733bad3ec8e2541a617f7c6bb00fe6ddfab70