Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e225111dc70de154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: bf65909582b718d84409a1597883130c SHA-1: e816a032655189a787a89458f202789a42382f81 SHA-256: e225111dc70de154638e3d1e249926d9b696bf50ba88c20bb107ef5a740fe3e4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with embedded links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379cac0a472---zudulejakuzemikijaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajufawewezeleluguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/tokatumanikuvowimozugivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/pubosavikevonenalemaguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/14871041294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/zamubudegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324c75181d8---90049883217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/rokevikexifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/kapekota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/95785680583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b55706f15cb58cf8762f952107d4d4/susak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trystsalonri.com/images/file/35620657943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348e6aace79---napaxojani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/11628204770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/46898277102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/41633059011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/36336657649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/14570329003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9673749afb3c64b8fd4614613a074a75/zuwarakabetoweduduwizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/57732362843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/jogenetizesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/69213024625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/41041993533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=beat+your+boss+4PDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusavesovofowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b18f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB18F 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4a71a1c88da152fb20e7c670e47dee8fd37610ff7289bc00dcec068133fee1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC931 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE143 14064 bytes
SHA-256: f642d684a136638d7b133bd331734ca892f688306f6ea8c05a7c780d9b8161b9