Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 656a02a44ed72e31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 780f09c85accece2aac4d62f48c1147b SHA-1: f44df94658884bc03574e5d69828d9681eba1d74 SHA-256: 656a02a44ed72e31c1e8c96036acfa2c3338bdf5bcb58c47cc2ff2a9b2fb592a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fb+lite+apk+free PDF link annotation
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/25752848130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78273387060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1367429f7---79837561555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///nizofasixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130916270d61---3594966258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400c95d52fb---16451272201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/setijagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/jotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/42717997053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/molejababufizipevage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/nulotiririmigumadokavajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89378803196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oupmu2brecj6v5gkb2e8prtps4/wobevobodewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yensaovinastar.com/media/files/dakumijulixadiveziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/93468265098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/36811494349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinpayflow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32811522705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/35654401983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/21747033991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40850103385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d5341666ba9efe6e9e632f8f583b76/zovisudedajiboroz.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_off0000b952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB952 10168 bytes
SHA-256: c59b9af733e34eaa5c1091b89b32b52dd2675b52c4601225f8ea1be61e99281b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF1 13712 bytes
SHA-256: 55a71ac70cda59745c191334a32dbdcaed56eff26f9d34c4dc44c86f2542ae3b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1