Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83a0bd143183557c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 21:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: afbdb05bd2f320e2b7f7441479ad066a SHA-1: 598a1b7de04dc1f0c1039625cbc2dd12330520c8 SHA-256: 83a0bd143183557c39d2fffded0dac01f00672c48344537497cda39280cafd2d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' suggests the document may appear as an image to trick users into clicking, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious content or further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 70 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://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/79671617408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079abb3b2507---movusejunikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4736b1104235c1ecf1e009f4b9a2b7/gimurebapidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24167f263b500d3bc4a2bbc0a927b1f/85791257892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/vupanalelipoluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/6913939902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/7830116473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf8e7ec931---wagojizisazizite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19b59ddc1b---17675572680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/20277811452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730332e1a40---84846553178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/43569501028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202108261902316910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/rikabofekumivokuxagegufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/28309929960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93201c9189---dosedagonoguvifufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/9742735339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/vuvufotejibete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/fivibufirosajoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/12095958646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/62304141143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0crupb6jmbbs2ccsvngv6jjdg/87770572855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukepupobelugakaxalutizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f64e57b88c672a2812dbceda11d76d/gijolone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/71837899110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e0d554efcd---44097630801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+way+to+enchant+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000b8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8EC 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7f4b46fa918e9337dce9d1e37d0d99f2742e8682579b8565469fa5c682969f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D4 13976 bytes
SHA-256: 09d0c6ab77c951da5f5eaaace660c51bc6181723c84bf961cb67f9a803461894