Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 621c179024877cbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 01521372925804753a0d4c786a821e2e SHA-1: 5dbeb4e898cc8ac1910c79d89073a5df37121594 SHA-256: 621c179024877cbfdf93ba328b523f137894ad5de2e8606268de5a7e92a8b90d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The document is image-heavy with minimal text, suggesting it's designed to obscure clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely directing users to malicious content or further infection vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/pojogum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51920963095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/bejalekijodizagibagifuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/54973329586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/96570088520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69874d552a82967fca7da55db2cf30c6/xudikogowusumape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210724100412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamay.de/userfiles/file/vogelaxomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/44793194897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/defut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47643945176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/351k2tc21k2jc4f06rj7f1hak1/banewovolokezezejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/kusugubopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/2021071317351196427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/naziliwebulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2d806112b---vuzajiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/36159561901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ada020eda---majudadebekiwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bd223826---gepogetemalasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9f213f034e1919c83ab8a06593ad3a/walabajodefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20219245509753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/womipoludodevozamijitowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/munosisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=i+love+you+u+love+me+we+are+happy+familyPDF 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_off0000b39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB6 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 6e060e14ac0f45bf81f064d89e5ba709b45a22ae01a0f03801dadf3f94ba568f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D0 13796 bytes
SHA-256: cee9508e47ec9bc452107ea121551ef063738d6f5a62af295e1ac147e519d5b0