Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4a89b642fc74d56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a226833020bfe766b9a0086eed435c26 SHA-1: 110ab28d92cda82b34e89fc0bab6854e2cd18651 SHA-256: a4a89b642fc74d56219b30b223fcec2aaa4e1e5a4ab0ebd1c7c0a0179f5c626a
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. It contains a full-page image designed to obscure clickable links that redirect to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external phishing sites.

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 1 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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+need+for+speed+most+wanted+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10775522736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/28269245831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/839305406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23882832252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/voxamorizimifoziwelimoben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spodne-pradlo-2bpoint.sk/UserFiles/File/govebexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://38e5bbdfe8be.gdziezjesc.info/userfiles/file/sijop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7a16547c1---momezawoxavopolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003456880c9d4967183247c05fa1968f/24424997190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/38921052751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/72487202455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/fadodokudini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/51496302353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/82272750380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/duvutozukiritumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipesasuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincodehub.in/userfiles/file/93571959715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangtriasianwindow.com/uploads/image/files/16150947751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/4134108383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465c2186b33---batalonuxulabomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/62129862682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advertisingreports.info/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/64528935270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/jakusujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9386d14576a315ce57868ed7ade59a/98783483387.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_off0000b2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB13 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 2254aafcb87c68a9cb3778088320f6314d4392313d1c6ac2bd1a2ca90893793f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B1 14148 bytes
SHA-256: 46b8259119f19829755eb162695e60d9419c3bb0f80d0058f60a90854057bc86