Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5486e7ba864b071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 10:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b31be8671e8df22a612b06ae7bddc285 SHA-1: fe64fe46628d5c35eb5d25fb7eb3371bd0b6268e SHA-256: b5486e7ba864b071820755891a7e3f98f06fb631541699a44ea68aa0cbb719ab
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing multiple links that appear to be download buttons or are presented in a link farm. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports its malicious nature. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://carpenterstouchnj.supremeroi.com/FCKeditor/file/zumef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokefurasuvedijubukelevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/gikumixapulunudakamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11317222772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/wifeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210916141452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqljsj.com/images/upload/File/45641183990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427a7986d41---lizelurujupoxovokari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79231690000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/liline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/76914067139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govobezusamuruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texuwadepisumazasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/2128499799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dd6ea57a461c75d078df5c3f1d629b9/35620409078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekerodizapafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210912120459342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petpetmates.com/files/editor/file/wuparika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fec9691267---susezabosojaverazetojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74685197082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaie.org/userfiles/file/20210913035813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogujokexusijejagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/14293522234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/nadevaxafuvedarazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/69987314758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ab260e63c31a49e6ebf83ddf3a55612/xojesunitalimumebokoxujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+files+from+mac+to+android+via+usbPDF 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_off0000dd5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5B 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 64b1fd87e91a9ac35c42c601bbf64595dec8c8f91958f131ff9624bb5ed82fb1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69A 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 2a7d940f020d04931b374dfe37e2f2cc08f030ce606d2fd8a472f30867af7f33
font_02_sfnt_off0001228a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1