Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d765eb49e49a76dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3db7331fac5a0b3a2499ba7205f2f3cb SHA-1: aa7e8a44979bdc5027c138856e691c71ddaa395e SHA-256: d765eb49e49a76dcdc9ea0a4a612c88458f9ea3a61bcf043306fcc2cf8b3ce7c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image-based lure, a common phishing tactic, to entice users to click on embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate the document is a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 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://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607788e12f3ee---zakobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/28805099141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6352621f5977692b4132e6fbb59f09f4/27310736229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba16e7a9e1c---95686224957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/lafuvupanolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f2ac6d0d3---26789624614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/19344820401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3042e9629---77363384964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokakubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/94938454655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19416966653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thak7k4lclr8hnpvlv2jjaad1d/bipedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwalapawawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/nuxizivutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85cc0f0cbe308a9594c13333a2a7c043/vadupipinubokekuvipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/jifuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045320a312f8ab3a627ccb64123cf41d/mogobitidozebegugepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepenirigokasogigifezuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsacare.com/admin/uploads/file/60452456514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/damugujufijapolesalerir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///54992125962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=amino+acids+structure+worksheetPDF 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_off0000ac94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC94 13652 bytes
SHA-256: 1cab4a7568b8642342eb76ac6d8d885c98ddfed5fa59075e139a3efa541a5dad
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE26 10848 bytes
SHA-256: fa147ee10f1d791b313f7b44296773e9d5e4dd0e3fb288a02255829fc775de9d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e71f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1