Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4b0f0f53d1db0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 746f01be11c0a11b0c52dc0da54488f7 SHA-1: 9bb6d44a420f4aa7b1fbb0abc26464f33c354649 SHA-256: fe4b0f0f53d1db0d3af264271ba9f2b0e4c38d66d0a909009d40cec9f8c1f36e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document's structure, being image-heavy with minimal text, further supports the 'screenshot lure' heuristic, indicating it's designed to trick users into interacting with embedded links.

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 69 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ipad+mini+7th+generation+price+in+pakistan PDF link annotation
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/zukopisugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/42596168971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/68831025081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dekimumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6eabfb1bb2f9879e0f278e5a4af9c4f/92608757615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/91532404493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.ru/d/files/75090913964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fohow77.ru/upload/file/69032527356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60389164415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316337384b2---jipariranejexepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekoredinisukatatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/39952637063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/81943912112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/43251369140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/fafaketogeram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46659047038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38449676756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a43ac02af---1105968855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/rixezujavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/kotorosizaweteromulised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatasome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31877531890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/bamufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69109491511.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_off0000b252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA64 14060 bytes
SHA-256: 90c03fb9ec711c83cfe93f78a0e3ef8d9bb57f41068dbb8f851981827db59f84
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEA 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 129b0aa4052200c2cc4518260582987cc479da45cb4afb57e9f33355b294d3f5