Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 652795e4c64d2114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:21:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ff42d5726e2ce8d04b1754cc31a66ae6 SHA-1: 80627787976f11ecbd4fb3c39e0e8bbcff851cc8 SHA-256: 652795e4c64d21148d21a6313673749fbfa9e11353668509bbd390806ae6f448
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be an image-based lure, typical for phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 http://huron81reunion.com/clients/f/fe/feec28e48c841af8be4ad6373737a022/File/79424013674.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d17b509caba2b4ac54a0ac24d6ab5a/gonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ie95udomdkgfk11n18s91tcq7/18587217276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c010303f567---1887245807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/54760579829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/kikexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8168d131959854a986a134270ab87fbd/57072027419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779f4f75a2a---kutuluvapuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8e903670a---80943909376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210603231339_360931603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/56962102385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078eeaf72070---sobokofizorokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210524063022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/7884059026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608825e2497d6---82472226512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0059741ecd9f9c0013e3fd47fce7b970/jaromuwizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/4500379138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/robetutijijemexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2ce6dd0e47---11126549160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a18529d6be---jejegopomakesote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/53356051539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d711281dfead7194d951afe6a7261795/vekunewovosamibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tratamiento+para+sindrome+nefrotico+pdfPDF 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_off0000afd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD4 14192 bytes
SHA-256: 58ebed3eaf2a2f29d5ff5d3475970ff85d0fdb1023250b058c106a689acbbab9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD248 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 2d69aaef8061e6369573902786c1d7d2d12ca4295fb7c01f736c7cc2504a3166
font_02_sfnt_off0000ead1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1