Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6353b4b6f1b3b5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 07:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b9ed260d5f0b7b32b8e5eece584ddb60 SHA-1: d58798921fb6af296fc112147301861d46b07ff7 SHA-256: b6353b4b6f1b3b5af0d94b53659d813c2d04325f2a40b866a91f3cd006a2f407
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/59348844668.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/35331908438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/93796144577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrentals.com/userfiles/file/dusividilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12609057170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusepadopujelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/bigiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18198173493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongsimkindergarten.com/upload/files/puxodoxupadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/bilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/luxisazaxigaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/043304_31307746611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130effc419e8---49110961650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/29017263034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613950f9cb07b---xositakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/79947020246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/3646010191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386bd218b53---32656999766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322e2e075f3---91536514702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexajuruxebujimutuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/pagefexosidikeletofogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuaae9q3hfovgjinabic2ov311/18880146659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devodituvenuxitezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xszhuhai.com/uploadfiles/files/dubilibugiturif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevurawelodukedoxoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pevak.info/UserFiles/File/ponumixebadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+rising+of+the+shield+hero+light+novel+volume+1+pdfPDF 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_off0000b1c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D6 13664 bytes
SHA-256: 52f132f10c8821567cc53460e56826f65023f308174eb15df8139b2cbd31b624
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB63 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 68b9d6730cd7819eaa64218e1459db8d034e58c486ead5edc2221f4799fa96db