Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9543519676fce14d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 22f9ad541a910bc719402ebeeefbf930 SHA-1: c5e9e64de9afed645bbb0813055234e073ea0c3c SHA-256: 9543519676fce14df1b0be49cfd02b552926a7b3d5a0d51b67cea55b263012f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image-based lure, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. Multiple heuristics indicate it's designed as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download a second-stage payload or redirect to a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiworugo.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46skp0r4q4k1sncm08obasv6vm/kirariwewufimumatubov.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acdf66dffc9079cab3e3e36212db9253/5549204245.pdf
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/41827866734.pdf
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/gapefuzizosivexabapan.pdf
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c5eae58022b073e0ceb2bd6e84a808/68613517279.pdf
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/17106392259.pdf
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/34259784990.pdf
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/20094807587.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5c4915b03---12307480378.pdf
    • http://solo-reisen.com/media/images/file/43434894515.pdf
    • http://edeins.com/userfiles/file/31684497407.pdf
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///zifimijekumuditexupufak.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402c9b49929---79440803045.pdf
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/simoxuwubufasusekivak.pdf
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/16824816173.pdf
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/mipetituvojasolix.pdf
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/tosarowukoramobesi.pdf
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50587302643.pdf
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/wojiremidizozesubizusog.pdf
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/48442374729.pdf
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/68685647008.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614160e4efc19---20237656049.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+some+contacts+have+photos+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ae91.bin
3b470a8fd72a485859f9488eaea74e116ec8c4dfebcc1461b6ad61ef1729acca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE91 10908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfc0.bin
787815d15f825ad330deea61b72cc3fdb140ac52e2a8863970ceddabc82e967c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC0 14124 bytes