Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4b338ab208610cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 19:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cfe480b6e2a2d9ac43bd6c6a16aed155 SHA-1: 07277bca0184770c0895d3e90184894cdd368520 SHA-256: d4b338ab208610cbd21f75685f6e6f59f039c9d3008d0fe674bfdbf6003abb0d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure, likely intended to trick users into clicking a link by presenting an image. The embedded URLs point to a link farm hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 67 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+underground+man+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://balbu.hu/uploads/news/file/51082130302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/2101829636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/37003656361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/garopidobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109070031127862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nincity.de/inline/file/xerenajokuzigujodesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169e8854656afb2494ae0133cf17f452/pipodelire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44911523540ba8d92d2a46534c0d5cb/32835855490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4821fc3d---26432901422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109082351274008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/88786762234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/13052736042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/filoniwilagefajavagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rgcsmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21355698341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/36861032793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/80309530476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/zopaxalikujuruviloxeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/zedipuvizegabelupunure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simbhaolipower.com/images/file/7408923307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55433731905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/bikaxixu.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_off0000adbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D3 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 613a23281cde01028d7acf98af105c34f60ad8a7fa1773bf94db87465317cae0
font_02_sfnt_off0000dd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD90 14524 bytes
SHA-256: 4f985cee9ff3aad29308a1d8688cb24b1d78c852aff85d55882f51917c15c84a