Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be63439922f3aeea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 11:06:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 30b5831290a5b59dd2bf5f497a3cd6d3 SHA-1: 0523370700012d40bae67baee4c23dbe7d8c9626 SHA-256: be63439922f3aeea40507e65cdf0263efac2aab8afb5c521656eef0091cba99c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. Several heuristics indicate it's a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 67 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://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/94108278948.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.info/upload/files/74358111263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/92565308652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142192db17c3---88215899941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/sibiwebejakibofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbdhnb1jdgqif7dgte3id95c9m/29764365887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/rakisurusixudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsmarttampabay.com/files/public/xinalirominivenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/wiwimola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejazake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/tivelebojiweludurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/6207105276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/vinomukegepenosaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/merepopazizepuvugezeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16547143800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/64509732691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143327202724---xujerejidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/82730386394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawolunotowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137203887e7b0d26263b2ff2f1207733/tewagati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb0917a4c0---46612702815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/68085792149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gumikadanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/2162415310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/ridikufozovevetogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=oh+my+goatPDF 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_off0000b024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB024 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83B 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 1d49ff0f48de228174106195ed238be232fabb88b0a8076ee31c71720dca7b1b
font_02_sfnt_off0000dea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA3 14064 bytes
SHA-256: 453492d8d80823ce1561915773f84ec33be03ba61d086382a48a9826e458a48b