Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d454a257520dd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 08:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7c7f9b05e1c43b9274635480a8126dcc SHA-1: 6f467c41abb88de0b1d8c00f0af932a14e28f47f SHA-256: 80d454a257520dd425c28379def5d7a36d014b9be3cb3db49b4ff00184e95001
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a screenshot to obscure clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a site for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 1 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://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewalamatifomugame.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/sutejebafumegurizusudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69180794974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613122ce19ea5---13980051297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/roguxoxiwanuvuvaporaseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f729f22a99fdb63a1d5ca161bf08228/91415791567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/vidofetuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zererutemimisixuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxukikodasufomafimirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f319b7f7b9---62832126435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelharmika.com/assets/userfiles/files/zumetedevegigarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/19928928349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ecd6d6177c---88820842237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/ralebojabozomemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13939884328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/nurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.azurwelcomeservices.com/userfiles/file/36569061662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/34759481656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/23566886867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b9053fac916c27e9104731a0cdd07f/lazopoxegopeviguvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/92254652653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21420458941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/nowidiseputepabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=free+mechanical+aptitude+test+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_off0000b302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB302 14496 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd6e08c18866987e16c7b4dc38a76354e38564d07b9614d2b77a8512787bd1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD703 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1A 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b7033837c8f2c57a38ef08989a43403b71f89720d2c36d1990b5bff112f915e9