Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90513821492e0a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ebac1b78aa938980f9adff36045ec347 SHA-1: 8c5cced1a681028b69346cca4c5201611994bd04 SHA-256: e90513821492e0a591eeb49c369818b25122cbc1421b10ddc057502bf09da3f7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a screenshot lure, typical for phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 67 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://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604bc9f0eb30df857089e72a92b21d6e/88790621777.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cmf8.ir/data/file/roremavojomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/982645124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/33176773547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/rewabedokenoganajeriwufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5934b8afd---bivarufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/peluwizudibumojedugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrakskodamnetice.cz/file/maxoxagegemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyd.rs/images/file/wapajodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/dowusitikovituropuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/litikobutekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74481408618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/154239658161315cbf49299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210903105202_720026251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/sofumidinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panova-art.com/files/file/dugolisawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9ffc9aee9---18114467348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/dosujupebewusafejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/30530655363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimetoloxibilolivonekule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/rajepexotaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=all+moto+x3m+gamesPDF 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_off0000ac45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC45 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 940af8161d78471f251bbb6d11b37759b22a014be4ec7055b2ba86469765278a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC400 14248 bytes
SHA-256: 4e12d68f473e904999affe81455c4d644d97ea69e14ef24a4ce650cab8b978c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000e72d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1