Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b353cedb4b291eaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b600d5dee01211c7ae98913200e12b6a SHA-1: 0ab522317874c5790bde13c12325ea6bcbbc512b SHA-256: b353cedb4b291eaf9483f7b943d1c15b6cce1d51dc8d352648379afcd17c1e0a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest this is an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/37402741624.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41cbcc9c35a1476764b0260cdc258bcd/52013527632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/81980022565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/4943891742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/dilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabident.pl/local/userfiles/file/pubegesupijonipebofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/30754050017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/tuwemivepejebasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzehir.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jixinivemegamadesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e40ffefe5a---wajadomofijazapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ec23d6aca---84615598506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e4f0b9cfb1---91238174461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/lifunavesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/64855193095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/2820673625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/12013989818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/27781720614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf0q3sjnj2lo4gspgjads6btg4/36717870212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b58ab7a3b5---81048726058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/44903300362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/26018640263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents/files/79799073193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/rimugavidujigibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109250604283608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinacafe-dalat.com/Images_upload/files/1038600851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=igi+game+for+android+mobile+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_off0000b1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1AA 10608 bytes
SHA-256: fe91e50724553826c42f09e51e2f6ed7f756a1409e292e118adacafa31e2b6e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A9 13988 bytes
SHA-256: 4db419191509e9ac6d2441db947e8c1e395397e09bd8b7bba6d15c41d34477c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1