Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c297df3ff544a2fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 23:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0b41e51ae81d11f4faf0c317bfa6a147 SHA-1: b941096ac81d7f0f22bce0cc6c261fe4ae7e0037 SHA-256: c297df3ff544a2fa23e8b00b8e8e21ce02560f9182525ae738e31b523bb31574
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a screenshot disguised as content, with an embedded link directing users to a compromised WordPress upload directory. This suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting a malicious site.

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 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://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/58076249412.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.com/userfiles/file/naloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423ecf0dcf4---91960960685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedajesagigako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqljsj.com/images/upload/File/99988234731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/16419910078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/42266160797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvd99laa5tgq1dbn165dpnto6s/74300270847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudaxijotisasesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/wizofekuxadusupite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/vivosodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/nopidukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/84444304551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/tupupineniziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/13645256421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/kixomusevudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/93873478641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiantoanttk.com/uploads/files/52058873393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/90843728937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317fe69bc3e---79613627488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/19686480935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/36420839432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/mivixonatifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142d955c8c490f4b6a60f64ff6ca3593/nilotarojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/27121228347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hacer+videollamadas+androidPDF 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_off0000b0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E4 14016 bytes
SHA-256: 3a924daf177a802adf34a617dd2a0488173303c1e2605df125f2bff478facc6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d35e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD35E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB75 10488 bytes
SHA-256: a38b4f6294d0a4bcb52994c9c3d764b6d331167e9ff5ed81616594d552863d49