Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fad570b869134288…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 04:55:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 77088a752f7b60bf11cc447707f3baa4 SHA-1: 6d7e30787eb12d2550e2c327e20195092275d0e8 SHA-256: fad570b869134288aa17940e265fa9206d0557cc10dd58589fd838fc0fa4b73d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with a phishing attack aiming to exploit users via embedded links.

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 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 http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47308215446.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/12130212514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d85cbeaf5---niluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a3a4070004---xobozuvexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95959966956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/fatuzivirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/44281085802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/89458247150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/kidatujigasibomox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiteweroroxabaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/99735761375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gedisivezevutimemezovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148613e10fab---fafonafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358d447fa34---wawonilowujozuvuzike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/62879962791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/xojexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/nikudinapetuduwokesaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/degududixejizadusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/woxixomotegikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/31736284133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/33283708993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20412336813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33829127282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=games+like+swordigo+for+androidPDF 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_off0000add3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADD3 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 756b86a86369316bfe585653415d06ff5d62b23231d662f6995f4e8095157804
font_01_sfnt_off0000c696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC696 13984 bytes
SHA-256: ba370e9285a6f5ad9d2f793b7d7a57763228e2ca4e9901ac51cf72a927240d75
font_02_sfnt_off0000e976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1