Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0400d4a47e4889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aea50190a3be55b476e08c63b0553f94 SHA-1: 522b77c73c5ffbd978092ebc12fa9ceab5508ab6 SHA-256: ec0400d4a47e4889959f4084449b99255b956d2a23e204fe4b6c2932b9cb10db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It employs a common phishing tactic by presenting itself as an image-only lure, designed to entice users to click on embedded links. The numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=science+forces+worksheets+ks3 PDF link annotation
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/19771994609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/83191827599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/jeberoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210906112333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613059df16f68---saduvubemafowuzana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/megurugiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/3196914148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/bavokezabewuwikefoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/20330133671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/fafenotaruneso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/37912746218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/sodezimerugazipumalesoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344183273b8---93252645362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137910b14ea4---6661401627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxetogemuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/wogaxemezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/64890141627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/povoronakofudaxitorena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35892853814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/jimafufadoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf15f46e79a7a05dd1824c893f4f8b6/mufunewege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/96037488493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/tiwowiwiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunufozusufe.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_off0000af1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1B 10652 bytes
SHA-256: bc1a8c7f891779e78c0cefb625ea776cc52bd21f9390281e08febf1cca325fcd
font_01_sfnt_off0000c78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000df9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9C 13648 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce2f5394894a04a3ee45c9bdc2d45f059f1af29012e860746c1ae217f6c7248