Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 623cd499893bd0e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-29 07:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7b82240432098e7eb9af33cd427cc8bb SHA-1: 6c0506ef73a8e33fe1d19469b0c1f1f58ec2aa7e SHA-256: 623cd499893bd0e57eb66d35d507e02906df97c1ffe1676fc29eb988bb9b6199
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 an image-only design and embedded links to external URLs. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 69 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+a+screenshot+of+a+snapchat+story+without+them+knowing PDF link annotation
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/sopivikawitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/18145073712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/fijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/68493498810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109121911093641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903000845296819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f07f3104e5f5d425952a08519763d13/72682936271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/19802780357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/kanavolunapowuxobovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/giwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/98154759842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvj6ja0je4vrq5lua254g67vj8/padidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/39723976023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalba.net/other_files/File/vejirusinipejugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109130457447204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/25880263287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/kazitejegeninewonudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/97326894015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/4403680865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58911913891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58092794324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/zajefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613147947749f---28954235661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/mipuneligirajupiwane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/51525226857.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_off0000b0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E5 11264 bytes
SHA-256: ea03b52735a0cce30e2044983c5a6590c19b5d29f8249edc76898bcc4ea6b749
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e34f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34F 14248 bytes
SHA-256: 65e973e978d53fcd47d8b3a7e34b0033ced96685dd3c8e67852991818674a73c