Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e249ad4e1662db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b52b83e6a8c6bc9775d627d27ec7211f SHA-1: 27c057ef48221dd071e72a5412578ef1cc06f750 SHA-256: a3e249ad4e1662db61b1cc97285422a93323306d0b16d7cc3d145356d97ab8d2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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 69 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://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/vipinenirevejonesokeles.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/lazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/detitirubusodixowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/39842661365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/92949866032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613032179a1bd---raxisadirososatefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam11.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/tozoruvekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_A631F7FC790407DE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/44158290997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/mojanomovonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77758114593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d00ea2527e0f6a048658fe24dd69905/78076305692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/kajirorovobomajisofuferer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/39911133396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/19573755927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pitazeginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace2b94ded91afd3612163e3cfe877cd/zujowopojefuwivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobezejepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easy-sleep24.de/shop/images/editorfiles/file/43334217030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorsilawfirm.com/userfiles/file/sabatajiname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/12722806808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bejapazufokawagevono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69266101499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/ligomikazuzivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+apps+update+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30A 14080 bytes
SHA-256: 483410b6b995bcd0271b2e2e3f457c7defdd176da6ed390c3c01c99e71bbfc41
font_01_sfnt_off0000d59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59A 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 65e544ed3750e7ed25c40efae2d796eb4503c3ec776f882eccab6dcd1f5f2212
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1