Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4cebeb17bd78516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9b4cc20751c9e6e9f0cf70afc7a23fa2 SHA-1: c0076eb1f407e651c80d68274c0f43034ae87b6b SHA-256: a4cebeb17bd78516977715872127ad869866dc2d57fb563af2986dfbf7b97769
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The PDF structure and heuristics indicate it's designed to appear as a legitimate document but hides clickable links.

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+sinhala+songs+2021+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/97764577838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/kubixetawolevuzitapejotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pioneerbuzz.net/userimages/gevune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a88409656f---firut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/kezapefidodimiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/lewusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/lexunavikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safaxepojilinekopugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/zaxazetaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51814724436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejuxegavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/935450530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovegoxejabegipanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90a8f74ff56be8be62987a79c03adf8/94717518248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c221bcc5b---40765411468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/17737543892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f0b7719f7---vidofufakoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijifumuzanotitirufopolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613adfea9b625---detegudapiborad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarireggioemilia.it/userfiles/files/90066754448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/mososoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votejoedestefano.com/editorData/file/dujutipifukebapupudojade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/19688107820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/kazaxalo.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_off0000b31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB31A 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 2b900f44b7eccd6f584fccd9e486dd7fb686990a89b8420b034e1d8c1bb3f103
font_01_sfnt_off0000cce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE8 13564 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2a5a0782661d7972c7eb66168a09846ddd1309262a3cfad2bf57874ae25e84
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1