Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9653aee725648c8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 18:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6adf66226f395fb03575de859026041b SHA-1: e5fc280bde636a5486f4e30bacb02ec52e553b94 SHA-256: 9653aee725648c8eaaee148559d1189540672c7e2ca45100879374f0e2a5b76f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it may present as an image to trick users into clicking.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=finding+the+vertex+of+a+parabola+worksheet+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451cea7f23f---vefikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/zixazukilofezivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/22198946414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/62421016619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/344642562614935d3e8e8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/gukivefukeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12333877992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/61180548101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kachelofen-prommegger.at/fotubevupiloparanudedowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortworthdental.net/cmsCart/upload/file/39001408062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d162020e69d07c782ff7a5bbb8b5cdd/tadatolevimoxigamuluras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/suzagotipefudubupiduzidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/zuwetakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sctiec.com/up_files/FCK/file/rataro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af3a838483---11562608542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ffe9bfe76---4077002237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7170711000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/bolewarapupevafujuvubali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93568129388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/62824344734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/gulatagose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artemon.nl/userfiles/file/30402138411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amityhr.com/userfiles/file/nulanewolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/93148462300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/17951651090.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_off0000b3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B9 14180 bytes
SHA-256: 33630949aac128aa8ebaa1854a5690a2b258a8e41b994ae2d3e7cb48a9dc8f8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD712 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF29 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 724c85bf394e2538ecaf9ebe7bd041a1a9398e3b4013cc627cb782aac40b697b