Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4fa1768b8235929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 26a67cc7e35c876ce66f11a9406df59c SHA-1: a55227aeb51f135d2c68c8d4ad8ab7a8ef290bb9 SHA-256: d4fa1768b8235929e942afa94ac109a432c9ead74fb9b77ddb57813ad1da912c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it uses a screenshot to hide clickable actions, directing users to external URLs. Many of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133678d7b423---40651105484.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/64978429377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/74677503004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/42145894973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ea215d0831---70290722912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentistturkey.com/image/files/25497155848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/29705174047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fugototowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/gepexikonoxadugezava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/40263822297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352fb4d0413---39185354498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22611221786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/77065221755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/62345331508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/97063145896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/89974611175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klusjesindex.nl/images/uploads/bolabedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f127b747cf7e55fc174f0aff1264abc8/migafanerulekagobolisifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/rigabotoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615267802e8d1---81622127452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/81751398765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98957434611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139542e9799d---rugupulogefususuvelixaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/90148366025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/pakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=c+gamer+apkPDF 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_off0000b285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB285 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9C 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 1bf954e9527785f049b0aae6e6e7360dcec31fa398f6835fa9cd85439c8aa3df
font_02_sfnt_off0000e116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE116 14180 bytes
SHA-256: 62298b4d200d489839a3c088cda5d0e6b362fcb655ff4d2ab65c20b4e718d281