Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53f43c1369b341e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 49f2a02995e82e54159ff069f93afee9 SHA-1: 58cdba5027ad46681eb6f157e0499cbd5e6ed458 SHA-256: a53f43c1369b341ef09fe900f227d3295c0f369988c03961024a9148f26c4ddd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-only facade with a click-outward action, directing users to a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links suggests an attempt to distribute a secondary payload or redirect users to a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 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://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8phfmb4to3f0fis6qad4qr8a2f/giwibudakadajomojozalow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/relofanabemabuwugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/wigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donupugapuzutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/58530534145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a793224601f---xexuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/vuxexulegonevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/56867592371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e88da74767---59084846576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/43961400395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8796693584427a6e50595c973dee23/87179462067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/81641863773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/zikivipapexutowixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/30537254401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1aec930f27---80788332877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/92678157591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0a1f09amdt13o1o3tivdn3akh/37031530774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ad7113cee---lirukimuvonokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38386527878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/buvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/xofasixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/biviruwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/fojurilebononava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/88383301494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=printable+worksheets+for+math+grade+2PDF 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_off0000b555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB555 14436 bytes
SHA-256: 43152f3e0975368218489b3ebf28ea35adf24f55b319e14d0dd3c0569d43e1cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d91b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF132 11240 bytes
SHA-256: f5fdc52a846bc5218d4480fb713299684d4077389e9800ce58a6c9aac41a12b1