Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f03fa75109c6a176…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:55:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7687ac173debf62d1e21c16358bd9570 SHA-1: cea756ccac328a982d22e69e5d9079af48fa3cda SHA-256: f03fa75109c6a176ecd7319845293b55afea8e3b38b32a230ae5f750fe5fea83
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with a click-outward action, designed to redirect users to external URLs. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, further supports its role as a phishing or malware distribution vehicle.

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 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mail+365+sign+in PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/kuzitipiwavelodegadobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fcfaf1c25---5377435691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasakizojupumoreweniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135915691989---73846986019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/wefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/buxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/34197533037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/gatototizope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/tizakexojudolifiwomesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96605981794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91822483933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/54037338263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/ronewalivuluzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/fufuvegafamadibujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/fiworutitejedosedogevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/27513521959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fd72e42871---54872969255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/farotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73761986758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/rafimewuwojinifapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theffirm.com/userfiles/file/93108837554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/7140457305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/rasotekano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/20729473724.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_off0000b133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB133 10300 bytes
SHA-256: bb10e99786b9c3f17ab4cefd61489111e47c9b9e195caf7a44f139d5df2d1b34
font_01_sfnt_off0000c87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE091 14092 bytes
SHA-256: 8760bd4db565afc84a1ebc22a2458139a0dcd50765f41f9da96ca97679bfdb73