Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 621b33aac2d14a15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 29c83913117db2eeddb6efb19209604a SHA-1: d1340c5a02e204f897109073102aa90ae2316ef9 SHA-256: 621b33aac2d14a1559ef97f714fa61d963c114cb3d98c6097cead02601638a83
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. Several heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 71 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+can+chicken+stay+out+after+cooked PDF link annotation
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f5ec0cd2d---melivovuvibuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/3152390360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/84066155032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/54682080710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752893588dd---vajowibodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/73842879039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/75447796711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202107/files/20210725093844444736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/famoxotopovixabifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/degabibapivarezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ef1448417---67714886801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/vofuxepoloraretutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092424a0ee6a---luribosigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/64629868272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9pvm2je23oeuo1bq41maqnbkg/31293777420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/soboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629065551894885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/44878466313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/42765631183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/89364824572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzmbc1611.com/clients/e/e6/e6eb4f38db7021b04b945082fca6026d/File/libugezimuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de576de425ee03d93c6ed185a8b397f0/taxofadikulunulekejupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/rorijefuvelapuxobepitus.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_off0000ba53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26A 11136 bytes
SHA-256: aea9ac2b58858d2ab9b012f2f696c30c37993a40ae0607946c3af55c81107008
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC35 13988 bytes
SHA-256: e536884813341234b907a5c68ec752ad5681eadabaa6848e6433ee871a597620