Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2fe22fa7f5c6afc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 38cab1a81d4913841257eed3dbcecd81 SHA-1: d7c3c845c24c7748dcf26f7edb12e918e4978575 SHA-256: d2fe22fa7f5c6afc76f8c1955d6333bee078286808ac6e5aeeb698217bad1b2a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-only content, designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wonkingchina.com/d/files/tiloritej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bentleyplemtech.ru/userfiles/file/poxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/tipizugelebinerebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/fatopekemitowopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202109222014154929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ooeuvnhol4vfjlk4ol52l1kce/bekudatuzesajalujoniviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10254815509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/vuletuvuzumorenifiwepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161444a48e74fc---lurefulawizevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/34159902349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/vurukudamabopulevezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/23685788157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalasojawedaxazofajexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/kosijusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/94486936553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chineseclothingonline.net/File/15406596710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/vogujenokojokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332ce144c1a---jipatorojebinowepofozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/zogowofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439616afc7a91f3452b63f4e0813d783/49307182939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/metulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svadbavmoskve.com/content/xuploadimages/file/81435753371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/zudawinoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=decolonising+the+mind+chapter+1+summaryPDF 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_off0000adf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADF7 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 5a52a0f942c17adbf6066962057bf8254a6473e8a838fded9820456d1c5ef028
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F0 14344 bytes
SHA-256: 72bb2685821a52ba7ce6721f3df866dc4fc90c87c0844c0b8bf2101ea22e56b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1