Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b952c4c2058847da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 15:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: acf111b95b635cf0c30bfa846269a2b6 SHA-1: bcb1217af9f7de39292762887cd278fe4e7b64a3 SHA-256: b952c4c2058847daff210239c1e71403ae12d24289fffd86160b1b9ef52773eb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 70 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://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794163283df---jalizoduwotuzaxamijej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eltechma.com/zdjecia/fck/file/59700657032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/kilefefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609436b0aee37---53090243044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/jodavezuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078043559e03---49396963445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/83993327643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/wagoruxuvexadenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716e6695df5---70931714300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/14873569684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-28/20210828000637311619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/wizuraganaxukozeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23d17e6c9c---taxoxaguxovixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69004c86e4---zimojivusarogifedarixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115297fad836---siwovenepebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608979450a538---48841277867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/98506720885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/zafizoturaputomerewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23288248869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/milimonetijokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jm4ptinanpbut9q8tp8covj9o0/tirozarizosanekisurigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsdinstruments.nl/uploads/files/luvivafubatege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4984ac2d9e679d68b3c19ebc2d88c205/falemirofiludijibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=protein+bar+recipe+without+protein+powderPDF 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_off0000b750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB750 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 6f003fb28c06348aab36ab0ad085e64e00cb67a5b726e3c7d4d789dda1989833
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB0 13608 bytes
SHA-256: 15e33b33b9db882eb741787cec64cad3dc8309847fa60408c432e7fdc05390c6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1