Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e657d90e422be4a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:30:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: af4c5cdb76898753cc42f1ccc8cec4aa SHA-1: d7af6736912e3aa4163f890b05fd6f5a44250f8b SHA-256: e657d90e422be4a5ce42b8b0b201c6eceebce9a96c35ec0b59fcc90c6032db72
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed as a lure, containing a high density of external links pointing to potentially compromised websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 69 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://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/12640737887.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/femufugasunomitekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306d42a952c---29511620152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/54165157854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/95957249771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da43dd81b2---xurajekoponilakamotezitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862bf2c0e14dcd0c4904a29c3ef03640/83518902898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/misumafawabosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/virudezenukixakexumupelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/desilewaganitijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/74540138612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/naxizaliligobugumoliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f1310e996700534526abe3071c01fb3/megitowubiwosapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/263942367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxusosedipuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/12064644906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/64474278102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11754463274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/33544439517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/xopawetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/nirodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/32887789530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131e2fc47800---90106551674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gta+3+ps+storePDF 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_off0000b551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB551 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 80597601df71efe8425a786e245de9de093e2957b70419af3c5d615ca5ded426
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC6E 14192 bytes
SHA-256: 8715d98b13edbcbd24f787c64935b7acc2084baa5dab007847ac9f98b7b2a81d
font_02_sfnt_off0000efeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1