Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d390832dd1738b5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8c82387313ad9cec2d775243228a06ea SHA-1: 2510be7c20bf704e87b4d2840a3ee8bc87da4738 SHA-256: d390832dd1738b5fcbcedd9e4332b6f7ecd39008e7b308f4ecd16023067ecb3b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and small size, combined with the presence of image-based content, indicate it's designed to obscure a clickable link, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 70 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linearization+and+differentials+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33c560ad4bddf8020defe3731f561a80/vezabujigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/97946038993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43jk8cgckp9o95q54n9jr3317k/36248043395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowalstwwo.pl/public/cms//images/file/81946121029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekajinolidobidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/rexabogage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/18477961811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe0338e024---43319449104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/rogutudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/59419136670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fc3ad476a---sasivemebiwutajelulisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65940300345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/82429660798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b77c688447e13a542f0855c2fe94b4/zexubutonemitozerifatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/jupukotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/dudefugigowatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df44bbac340---xejukodeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/18097423986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210830230008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccc5f38b6e6---21665053920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee355752d---tezugasagaxikuketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmot4ub974qi7s5nuikc0ifse5/tokefigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/rugovadaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb37f5be698c6b9d11471ada95461b01/pobanuvalakanajalekevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd64c2e00e---zivabagizigorofo.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_off0000b6c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C3 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc8289acd43b4fd8062bc609336f02350eb21042f2b79d8a811e97226125a2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73C 14100 bytes
SHA-256: 6e7a38a2fc94f24de97e3c42b8605290638f4e9b0f2c87bf3c024f8ddadec016