Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 816adced8f499c81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bd3d8342b6dac1600305e85e4ec62753 SHA-1: 138d0297ee4d783d8cd6a309e9c02468f3da409a SHA-256: 816adced8f499c81aeb9ba9290e00e75a065481122f00ca28aee6f0717a8bf25
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image lure, a common phishing tactic, to disguise a clickable link. Multiple heuristics indicate the document is designed as a link farm, pointing to various compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a phishing page or initiate a malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/94630869499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac0c78662b123d854b3e6a554eac59f/rubapifiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/xazevojajijukuxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/89371006697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ab644bac3---vobinizabinokekelabetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/xuliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e70d8db74b---sulupajukabino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451d7388120---ximavutajoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dfedbb56c60b10bc31e1d92880d0179/nulosagolubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/kanigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/gesalaresujipuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23991c42f21c8dffd1d52d2573173fcd/xinebafanaxofudokevefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/vopedobekiname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/pijanejufako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313135f0c41---ronijapexolesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/wesiwanukuvotovipewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negeratajameritiwogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/92754264231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ab9e80d71---80480149803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/17604617165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+tuner+pro+apk+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000af48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF48 10640 bytes
SHA-256: d7bd124797bfb95414b3f18e12ac769c6ffbc94805a103d7cb7678adef9fa0b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C8 14460 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8cf9dcd5925416a5d1e48035523b479d93d5e3618e886ac80b9b5e36951199
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1