Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a770746aec7018a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-29 09:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 638c569a0778bccc259487349ee3ab4f SHA-1: 512f0ac85cabf36a05a56ba74e317dfc2170452e SHA-256: a770746aec7018a4ce450d54ab8b1cac39f7a63e9c4f6dd1b4ddc67b55df1cdc
216 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 actions. Heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, aiming to redirect users. The presence of 'cmd.com' within the document text suggests an attempt to execute commands, likely to facilitate further malicious activity or download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=movies+released+in+2016+in+theaters PDF link annotation
    • http://ideal-site.ru/userfiles/file/43502843532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamupezefolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/fotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/59351674609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/kekojodijepabufuwopope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/wubenilogoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indigobaby.eu/upload/files/zuridanasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/panoluzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/56166482730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/tafavuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/14375660463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb2d190b21---62031848925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210909222738_8epwt8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadiqandsons.com/userfiles/files/xefakegusogokejafogadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/wasumujuwoveluduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/14422111577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrarelaxedcbd.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/pomofigapapagizumajanana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_E27F2B196DE4FB89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc8506b8364dad569fc865a3d240395/25753353084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i16s18jekelr0mo8ndjssn4m3p/758634667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c1b80753f1670926942294924fc8ee/28340290144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdcmd.com/data/files/25528149851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/68129914621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/sudedolupexagebomikenowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.orgIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000b1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B0 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 9451436841e6610d14077cdc2686a5d94f119bc2f893bbb9583e7e8da4221751
font_01_sfnt_off0000cada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADA 14304 bytes
SHA-256: 008bf95ebfe5f99418a9b918077015673e801f1d09607535cca9d596b92a3a25
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1