Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d301484b1e584724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-29 12:46:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9abc24357bc95c6a4c0e18e2d422451e SHA-1: 55984c22f142291270268b552bba31743d4f82cc SHA-256: d301484b1e58472468a5240a06b07fe96839ecf497e5663f55cc1348dc18a397
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' indicates a common tactic where a screenshot is used to hide an action trigger. Multiple URLs are present, with one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, suggesting a potential distribution point for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145638b787f6---81675845991.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/31237078738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/76606001403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/75830231232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/61773266545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/36873892338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanyosushiglendora.com/uploads/files/70953542444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/35426416665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493bcc0d6e8---70761002798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368cbb601c4---wozadevujogubawozeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yujinpharma.com/upload/files/26086624149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markjfox.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/63424338064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fge-service.com/userfiles/file/matuzozujorinoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/98873121698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/44538708616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/33558472353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62946797353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b66541b48cf49d3d7006ff36b7b0560/pisoxivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suranareecommand.net/UserFiles/File/lilutiwapufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/nopezeketen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e5e30540c4312d8a55e33a6b532d56/99403122910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a97b582982ef810e3c45a72c41fb03b/95473286394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=android+external+keyboard+shortcut+keysPDF 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_off0000ae16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC628 14260 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2f1e40ac1089de8dd60cebe8848d1aee82d4ea308ec0c6f64768a40e56b910
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CA 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 666fe2fda2824f6f55ae62b6a4a5c3af2b69051f091db88b295187b05e4dca3d