Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e61873ec7dc6ab0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 13:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fe8b96c72953733e5f329cc7e46b47d3 SHA-1: ba99196fcaa3e2b9379998e83b33b13da971addf SHA-256: e61873ec7dc6ab0acf5980b4fa6f25c8459868a658fe78ee3db65e6db1b2bb26
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=positive+n+adjectives+to+describe+a+person PDF link annotation
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/9267740445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16893929468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/zazanuvamuzafopusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramozomelolurolemakudedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbyshoe.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vaxakatedave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c5ba7c3614ad2dc7910b3f75539e2d8/wetibovukogametemogapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339b87550de---41066533813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/51495073188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/17469586495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/98630764689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/didinegiguxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/4076803762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/8212806726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frigosztufi.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75990859946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/98228387379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/mibulopativakuwivupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xilosamatupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/87446637128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/30486811854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/69601018691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232465d0841bf6c8b8d3b6dc714aec8d/xuvalirowenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/falimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/53935925328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80724703065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210907235524.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_off0000b2a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB6 13900 bytes
SHA-256: 240abe80837bac90702979f4d9133f9e3b4d99dcfddcb9e0584cb71ed1a7f842
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF9 10796 bytes
SHA-256: cd8d07071d327a682beb2da3dcdb1dd55803ad34d022a524c517793a917ae131