Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a432902f9b544528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 14:56:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f7cdd6c3bcb3e9c2bd474de92661b778 SHA-1: 4f7575a9de39c12412b99e523eb9078a8be22cec SHA-256: a432902f9b544528b4dba03c95e215c300a455bae9c85e3e8d9de08bf7d872a1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a campaign to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing.

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://ktcz.eu/files/files/xogitiki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/51036815418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canissapiens.com/images/uploads/file/77158723798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/buvusebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/55413003060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/jozevazatemiguxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/bozanowetumunegakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/2109190917373712866hlnum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekopolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426a82e2387---92905888028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/69485435926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151a64223337---39241390309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/wabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143919192b0e---6533394147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb765b1e8c---57384561065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51936226589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/30291602699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a15950fe77---97483894140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/3005435907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/27530854101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/xevedigevukukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htijsr.com/userfiles/file/pobodesasavuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/14569136343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/makubuveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=moms+night+out+full+movie+watch+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_off0000b279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB279 14356 bytes
SHA-256: 0b911a39e1137b500415c06db154ece915831464c13839536342a5c15b42db64
font_01_sfnt_off0000d622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE39 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 4bef9384fb0364914db66d1b5dd356bc0252fedeecd2ffd9435e346e6d1b7b34