Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71e17084f6115a2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:07:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dd551d6b1514279b282bb98f722ffa2e SHA-1: cbd762450074c4b85e0b1528bd582af687dc1951 SHA-256: 71e17084f6115a2f0a3019c2f219e7dd6ab3531e456b39c1858d729df033c129
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 embedded clickable links. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' indicates it's likely a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking an external URL. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+return+deleted+pictures+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/jaridenowewoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/49127841472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc2bd2dcb391b33d2ae564e67bc3090/19845390210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redururejuwajanixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/lafemekobibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/sufenuzutinunogezururemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413f86ab0e4---rogegiximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gemukogagolole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/zosesexexukirarugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonenozuzapenefuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/17788103781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/jakodifagigiwuwiburusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd7aeababadb7c291e5b3c3c505f770/17898768517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/99241496052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18184355698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/xebivafokolepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f54bf088b85364e430584c0456b23c86/wedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/kujolatezolinatojalezoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/nisedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/zilofuvedujitasubosolofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosexomavuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613190ed5d4c7---walujopage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/tasopigaforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/mefopizanudatuzowal.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_off0000b01e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB01E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC835 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 8e67677aebc88b0a17f46214ee48da2400ba4fb45f7f02c59e0622fbf4a84e01
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CC 14180 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1948be6b9dfd15d55b7f787eec647ebe9e5fba7d451f03449d35e309402af3