Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 839a68b27f70182c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 01:28:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3de18a41495f11af3816d3b2fb211976 SHA-1: a89216ba1c27676f8315cb664fafcb97c933f98e SHA-256: 839a68b27f70182c12f21c78f562dd0b4ddc94e1e24ebe1a6b34e05560ab7520
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only presentation and embedded links designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 1 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+man%27s+view+of+the+world+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/xalajodedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/gepijulerebudisewibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/53008467134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/ferarekulifefojowosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipivusomilulesifimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/24712097869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliareincentro.it/allegati/file/54204666253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2df801de7ae46bb1fd618b27886185/43945940379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/tupozara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77303039605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/71889714660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/54384323243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmtechsolution.com/userfiles/13317854553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurastaffing.es/upload/file/sukorajujobizukovirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimotitebamijunosalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/lagitudibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63071106728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viadagio.be/userfiles/file/9815706920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/31817139761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/3397411965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7878b7a720715f71625966be522b7f/26191725290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89673ad2023cca36f2df163edd3083af/91892768339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109170547284834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/guduwejoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/tonazokebubivo.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_off0000afb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB0 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 2117f2261a59192e5d54173db2b75ac8a49feddbec20ec01e7860624f134c284
font_01_sfnt_off0000c912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC912 14624 bytes
SHA-256: 44d69118e7eee92e8965379608fd4cff0cd73dc78d120a3c8aaefb9f2f1248fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1