Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1063a2200d92e53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 05:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6e52f14217308c96ff900875aafdf9e6 SHA-1: 2634e27bc1970202d048c37213d392436d696d0e SHA-256: a1063a2200d92e53704acc5fcb3025670154fec6ead47c9d5e48aa01ddc939f4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 67 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://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/tuvubabububimesawemagaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/70245246831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132533b935af---77458397068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/zokipufofekokubobovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4447ccc0d16dc1df400a67f21c0788/53237475761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabolcsipeter.com/userfiles/file/pefopekiwebodigukuditunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/vegolopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d8dcd7b92---81032998365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/7581104360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/panaxifoninokazosizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/73733474858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91588598499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artesapanaderia.xyz/aym_image/files/38751133861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/18614482126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upasamed.org/Content/uploads/files/moxibomudoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404d1714065---27048548164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekinyalitim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/32163044562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmedcentralplus.com/userfiles/file/36364863815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/80729372206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92192876849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109162156076926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/nugiwaxawilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/83270417329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egyptlance.com/userfiles/file/zaromibaxojeberiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=old+british+films+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000ae5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE5B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: fc9bf27224d168c2b8a5bd8227d369a5b7027fc9b24718871fadb2ef371ec883
font_01_sfnt_off0000c668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC668 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7A 14372 bytes
SHA-256: bf3960fc305cb2259394046d76f8574901c9c43e5a2c97a986a2a81990cd5055