Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12531b550b75a47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 40742fcb59ed2952f7b9e41958571746 SHA-1: d2152d80e06384d4acbbc7f81735bb1fff05039a SHA-256: e12531b550b75a47520e7b9af4e57902aea23ca39cdd56fa00d29853bfb56ba3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF employs an image-based lure, typical of phishing campaigns, to entice users to click on embedded links. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://beautydent.hu/editor_up/wogigamovezibat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/lenejixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12bac1ab7e84297b433cecec4d22772c/75246012221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_4E03B8732CE66CA6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centrosanmarco.eu/img/news/files/92594508775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19858685123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyccenter.com/images/Upload/file/38201373795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/52670005758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a76e37986b33bad281572165c1b085/72539204750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/pamawafuwiwuzajodafusutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funavimewateji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493ab75898a---vusekudekutenefegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/rewovasixedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pribatu.lamilagrosaimport.com/images/files/bopojotimenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/gepeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69089974495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9vi5uihtjmlde0jq7tm19k992/delalisoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359780d2839---wojajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/jubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/28027068543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxejevixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/82255433836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/tiniwomuruwejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sudden+redness+in+one+eyePDF 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_off0000b171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB171 14232 bytes
SHA-256: 42d313ebdb991bc5186a3ac6cf5bedee127c431e4f02319c03b663063d9a2b83
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FA 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 395197a8f13d177a103bdf9be267d25062b5e7c15752c2ba0cc2f969ec5796ac
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1