Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1f545c1277b59a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:46:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b5ad3e90f290554e02b6f88ad74fed1f SHA-1: bd9bac2f7a240dc97e78a20a8fc4f4bbf558c89d SHA-256: e1f545c1277b59a1a5383681ff0b1b1de9e94a47165fdca4e201fa8d4f8e0539
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns, using a screenshot to hide clickable links. Several heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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 http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521031339729463.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2555019aea6789e08ba53464d8bd9a5/poroveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/gajapituwowiluwunaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210812002225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/bigokimepenutebipapusimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210622194145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/daninamodezamanizalimesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/40718568954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/72026428069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f649a0202e---mowuwazoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4f5ef1ed91e87269f9d63c83bee6aa/madadusepegidonoxoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853474ebc75---62356403971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbc89c54226---pumigisazimajirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c441c8a62---famunogavabosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimalorobudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa8d2d36de---voduwolinuvawovujodoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adc7283b2e---32442840878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81613086762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/nexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd13ef040b34136e81201ea29bdde5b/murifemuxijupuvalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=time+worksheet+2nd+grade+printablePDF 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_off0000ae9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9A 14364 bytes
SHA-256: 86c6a89c9e10ae6b1305a12fa27f1c7dc5ad86c707238daf763fbeb3b7be52aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD217 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2E 11240 bytes
SHA-256: d6c86e7751f6acf3773164630de7f1aa55a8823f7f91538969708e9436de6205