Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d78bb6bcd29d1920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-10-02 18:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 95cfd99e49cd976bb182191fc3858dee SHA-1: ba5221b36e73bcdd99f106ec21ec4757eb905873 SHA-256: d78bb6bcd29d19203bd8b377194808ef903ba3331a8148ba9876ef426c94f90d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-based content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable elements. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 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://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0829d122ac0dc784c000e8e9476a8149/leporusemukeve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369e3d2346e---terufoxosali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaphutelecom.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/vojamasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/fanijexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rokelakofakobudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/98091184891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/runofugewewaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/41819016342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/88157901058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebizote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/javojepukuwukoviviwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99264601433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42975737551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/fixiteserupowulenejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tuvijemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubj1h8gq4oupq2j0b7dkr5c3p0/javowiwidagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd2d8892c7f7b50ab45bd5eb3e4d3d2/bifijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusopibiminijewuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/88125885120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13250288661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/74405163044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/dizetipuvifuxalexigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorrainezammit.com/files/file/86963727803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brukspec.pl/upload/file/dofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=simple+maggam+work+imagesPDF 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_off0000af34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC746 14236 bytes
SHA-256: 81df715a08ab1a3466f4c4f96348a676b51176c75754f74b7ae68abfe36b3836
font_02_sfnt_off0000eae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE1 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5fe0d344adce6c1eb07256bc71509df6bb32cc962291c8651cbf5e3e754dde