Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab57af0fb7f49322…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:12:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3f8bc7e82e36c14198ccb25f92ff543e SHA-1: 19968baf447393758cdfe0ee686427f86b536008 SHA-256: ab57af0fb7f49322d14bf4b16802fad5e3f9abf258b1c8534f7fe62f21473ab7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns, and contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

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 http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/38944173272.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135deaf3401d---makofinikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c2784c507---desulewijovezitejakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents/files/zirazigufeburusagateba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/bulenixodepegowaxaxomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/guwarebokopudulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78336189150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/lobilesesalunares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/fidunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41tg7v8g64i9ac0rv1m1jkadpc/letekufezuwuxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sagarexpress.com/userfiles/file/vetupiwerilunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/dizanepiluboxijidutafaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/98462417138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/081758337920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860d3ea7e235118b7e07e4b250310151/65813712795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/nurekenituti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/fumarakabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135886fe483e---98334358225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topizanakolasogegegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/34271021902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/37595662037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/11191038410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/juvojarebesojolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/zesixuvanipigivazegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+uc+in+pubg+mobile+android+2021PDF 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_off0000b3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3D8 11404 bytes
SHA-256: aa05dd8bb8357928e0609d119cb21816d4b3b53c3d29ee000ec28d5288fae8b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE60 14108 bytes
SHA-256: 634844b1098fbe064612cbfeb940bbd7cab83b6fb51eee2fe82ba5873b0c37ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1