Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6494500bfb0a4b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 17:14:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cd432084564deb78d300d724d96c376d SHA-1: 3a1ffe095d4e8449a615411897f1ca53f3515751 SHA-256: a6494500bfb0a4b1d26faedb9fc301e6d380d769d131abdbec42b0d1f090b523
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a screenshot, further supporting the lure tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 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://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/78370995028.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stormester.no/files/file/37808003769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24407084724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3asoft.vn/img/files/5286319226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5961086011514e6b65b19989d2fcc3e8/tewizajiziburodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasusetad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/8876605215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/wesotalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/givibakowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegoneguzuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212f7a07bf5acd1970f3eea7de40d9a1/2007525634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/28835997658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ee0dbadd31---melirebegotimatiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/14003616234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/muwanorugavagadatuviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/63868294301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/suruwetulefimubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb16fb3c344d2114ff70dd0eab89bff/vemetosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/gijixafusipami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/disolirunovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyna-garage.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/wotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+stories+cheats+ppsspp+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000b0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B0 14064 bytes
SHA-256: f098a27785455d2ee9cc5780d10d5adc30030f4789bcec223380a3c13c1380b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A8 10916 bytes
SHA-256: e7a61aae2c49c7ccc21e56776b0ce8e12000723956ff35345fba893540e5f621
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1