Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e227fb2f73d218ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 07:12:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2235d3a7e8cff6874d201460187de613 SHA-1: fe2a5548fc46fac7a02008cdcc6cb2b84d0c3f7c SHA-256: e227fb2f73d218ac6a3af9fc5154c5d7dbc036814e83f61b7a316a208be28635
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-only content, typical of a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

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://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27425842019.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81276707960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/ganapedodigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turchifiltri.com/userfiles/files/40395926636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/70625028046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/dumagamasisabofuxabelava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/79108883761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f4e54362d5d0f6aebee2ff0bff7617e/lulago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/zenowirajemutasizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/23940666942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47bae24c9ad1f2fb00e8d11c96749b5/47459998393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/12039995487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopclickhospitality.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/26660915653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/71107057316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qigong.ru/userfiles/file/47964078263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/96670512298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/ligodevedapuxebarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranczowdolinie.com/files/lazemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/59654407781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/41877664276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/83700580787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/tatojedexokunanesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikotufare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614367f44d1d6---49836300682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+fallen+angels+1995+online+freePDF 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_off0000b12f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB12F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC941 14048 bytes
SHA-256: 99df594bd059da5528e72e24c8d7ede7427438aaf98d8a3191f3e682d0d8427f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD3 10960 bytes
SHA-256: cd5aa855ef3a64cc1811e98c9c32ed5d24412fdf1b5af53d29ad28b632c671a5