Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62a12088126a2e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cc941d44fb00236ff99f0e239b9f864a SHA-1: 6894dd080e1c901d23548d82e085df57b29a0e5b SHA-256: d62a12088126a2e9e81e03c7df88f5e0358ad19e1e1f053c9953012fd0a87c3c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with a click-outward action, designed to trick users into visiting external URLs. Multiple links point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 2 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 http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxamizoworasanidum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noginoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupaludud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhagiatxanh.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/zalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404a9a4997e---12627661929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/99742426738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frenstravel.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79793892588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amzentransportationindustries.com/admin/imagetemp1/file/92947235824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/81022116453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320de9951b5---loges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/13792398095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo4e7sbj45m1n944f0p7gc4to3/bagupekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/dedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/8288307569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/sezemumewuzoluzilexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/87896259868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/zemipasofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161458e85921d7---zixigeriworoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyergz.net/uploadfile/files/27971052337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/vakutimaxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5a894bdaf---lexipumilufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/87839348873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/55996276828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/86597493224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nomedia+file+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000af39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF39 14204 bytes
SHA-256: 01a3d44c67a489570f2818399cb3b4c7754c4b28b8eb69890712e3fa60550a60
font_01_sfnt_off0000d26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26B 10312 bytes
SHA-256: f01987a3791e8cbedf4f6874f7d41e09608b6236b6ebd19b26a9b1701ff2528c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1