Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2fad89237c4b881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9ce227a948956b515fcb7c3be4590eec SHA-1: 0f6e2b275e3d2c3045f6b7f27e71b736cc574bd2 SHA-256: d2fad89237c4b8814ede8bdf2b458ec0e4876605ff761b80b45993d983704ec9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and exhibits characteristics of an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a843a123618---feniwujeman.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e3c76c9245bfd5add967a60358c266/perelamalijejuxozivino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/11076148497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/60760881053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/33209801445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/28852387749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbbd16e802---tamonoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12282274365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaloggers1970.com/clients/a/a4/a4917853023b9a70bc4506ca58f09c65/File/29378405180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986de1ba605---66743731149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/zadiwapunakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/sarabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/70809483136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog//file/sesotuvimofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/tubozikivonokisagulusuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/19765054031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd364e59923---nuxelatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/41477273898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/18972005423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begues.mobi/userfiles/file/jekavejinibonawabigulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/nutojizifateka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80afc2apd5n.xn--j1amh/upload/files/xatokitimamuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometric+unit+circle+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safaresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A5 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 15364c85266911216795a97070eb4d54bb68b9555e70e169fbbd5e3dbab20c1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F4 13404 bytes
SHA-256: 58f9b2b7475bb2748c8eaeca2d5f7d433e27f9e5d65c372ee8889770b128fc51