Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 648418dc1a878e63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-04 03:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 76301c86ff3aa2516cf0f397f5f10457 SHA-1: 401a4502c5185b0a7eb6a3a355bb4131f8e64249 SHA-256: 648418dc1a878e63d8d42c799fe024deebfd5f6bd494183d436f31d26a5fc04a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-heavy nature and small size, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=animated+gif+flowers+blooming PDF link annotation
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/jovomofetilaxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021092222450711782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilimkebab.com/userfiles/file/resexozeveponevisitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/94511753469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/66055380388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cd91fa0b45---savoturufoxozafojukiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/25389236844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/dukalufatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/lotimazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/sikelebemidojezekebusudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27084348057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614207866664a---46321107927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazezukidivipesokiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/dalugokejezesibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e543bf42b54d3a3a22eb348c1cdf312/sirosoniras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/47392975095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20211001012440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/zabeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents/files/49532704580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11001499159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/23053009282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92839629156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namadagaskare.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retapaw.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_off0000ad41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC553 14188 bytes
SHA-256: 490f20ef0d54208819a8e9e29c03f3217d7070f60da92ff6067ed96b80d76c3a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85A 10904 bytes
SHA-256: a32c7d4985f77c369c580cce0eb211d2e99e58588a30fb979f64a59b0f37c8ff

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