Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e668a8eb0ff15b46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 04:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f50f0f245ec79afddfd6e479aab5a5e2 SHA-1: ff08014b8f9caecf71507b88147d767e7954b8cc SHA-256: e668a8eb0ff15b464a4ecc7dfa799f385b7de571270221c07fd67a5a5de80e5a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing an image-only design with clickable action triggers to direct users to external URLs. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving user execution via malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+to+android+video PDF link annotation
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae2f75debc5c1938ef52fe37eebaa43/47823515203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/58868438378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/6725799018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/tagujonitido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/mixezijovetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/4918453731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ab3a7b244645926aaa7ebfec421ed2/65799262315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210908010203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kozuwazurisupelubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1630552994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/bivewofibufupobaxatorekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/vabewunerobemekezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/5731131656152257a46ea5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615254f3bae84---39870684557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/depojajejaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/10885164839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/24561545278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/juloxapubizowase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurowijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151b66042721---27816281568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sana-anong.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/19372131720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lodopodenafunezepewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/40568261997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/daribugigekafini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614676409f8ce---vusanamusexefepabadesobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/11691440045.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_off0000b4db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF2 10292 bytes
SHA-256: b8dd03d83989c186cfd979e035f40735e5d5995a7fbd13f1ce163b82409fa19c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE404 14104 bytes
SHA-256: 5107d3538b7e53118b724330419599aadb800a251b5ea2624ff1666d1b6dea94