Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed75a613b0ee0829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:58:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b34af513e4011544566558c18d497f04 SHA-1: bb89f47c566d64c71b1e9b7b9571de52b827d31c SHA-256: ed75a613b0ee0829ab2a8d2ac565246ad40bb4467371b10cf5cdc1d8f8751c45
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure with an image-based design and embedded links. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely to facilitate further malicious activity such as credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+8x+price+in+bangladesh PDF link annotation
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/78592794855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpzbeldowa.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/70998295109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/vafifexaguxidozepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e81babb69---55895116425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/pivufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021091219204229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/koxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/towugogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/rejukiwigojobiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133cecc23fd2---21209146410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me7hb0ca1h6qntja0lbro0k4t0/rogatevemixusozofudoremal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d119740e32---lixuzize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/41921867360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/92310160030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/zavawewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/benazoxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/kutexojitedobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31781908909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/jivepujuzagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/pitebukekijasupuworuxunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ziropuzomomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916022155707053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yidaig.com/uploadfile/file/20210914131814.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_off0000ae71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE71 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 44f3efff1ef1dbbd0297c37b53d10da0190f99e54a79bf77dbdced4b41b8f63f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE2 14192 bytes
SHA-256: 0d598966cc85f3ce06c7b2e3358ef887ed1f1e2c979f15653875799d2e901b0e