Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4af2fc1da9fc4f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 13:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02f4a464e98b58eb4a150eb5880651de SHA-1: a266837370fd1b95b48e7d90eff8d03eb1d6d40f SHA-256: b4af2fc1da9fc4f222d88c610a17b3bee4a8c94a191ad07fc076154d19a39c76
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be an image, further supporting the lure tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geogebra+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/32332994401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///bekuvoxedomilijebupisisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/zawurafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/83512299330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://russiancosta.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11562789136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/62177743924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/wemapelafite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/safatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkp.ru/upload/global/file/batemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/gonizozuzuseloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/43936182555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/29790407005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/53885701496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/achpikmikcntmuss2f20avmjli/1206691398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/17969704960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/89415583708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/25659817786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uog92djvghsej6qmrhhnbaj8v9/29776459408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/8498999255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharev76.ru/userfiles/file/60742262732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144be5ca62fc---tefixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/40041641134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d86115f63019e205a99c4e58fb62b328/zebofoxujatojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15470171822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srilakshmienterprises.net/uploads/rinelimumelakisilelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b20f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB20F 14232 bytes
SHA-256: c89fde1dede22a8c3ed667554f399200cf5cd0a9e709e65d07ae2704f63f3fbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58B 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5f74b8b4cc966528f643e29fcaf87bd9571d2b5e3ff2ff3a26ac550e921e94
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1