Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3e41e826f925787…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 00:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 864bce56a85878d7e51e26d0cd80e34c SHA-1: 3a54a62629605696f5426b822e02f2879710aa4e SHA-256: b3e41e826f925787645c358d37575e0087791de1878b79eb7d1140aeb0359f8f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It presents as an image-only document with clickable links pointing to various domains, including IP literals and compromised CMS uploads, designed to entice users to download further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content but reinforcing the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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 2 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.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/53903075963.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8000152d0---47254947663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/fegagejasukigivewikoroga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/bedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23957435241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notizafosekiwujowusijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/45496375295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafovuliwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78371363291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77335435474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6g0uq3smrpk3aa1rhcfl6n5pr2/gozumetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/111ceaab65cd622aea64c409b7517c41/34170057195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syria-report.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23760790906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/zatebuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614109e12389b---21702942892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefujujifarujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/bifilunefolugabutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/36107995483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13165699647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/99296736477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/13994599755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19311569759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109190301474108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/74844716003.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/kosinutixebuwavupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+root+customization+appsPDF 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_off0000b342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB342 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB59 10704 bytes
SHA-256: a39f7014e9ff475ae059b411b97da51279c9e8ddf663ec59f1301c40c94cb9e2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE400 14188 bytes
SHA-256: 21921a5ed70c294714674c41b90fc4b20c632c3123630e72619f18c53aa0d67a