Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cf74423fc78dab7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 14:48:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9989e3d1220a50f980075d416ab0271b SHA-1: 3b2cbacfead5a3539d1fec94b0d7996ee7223943 SHA-256: 1cf74423fc78dab700d3fd95bb341baf21f2a22439813ba51e7ae9bad594a8fa
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-based overlay designed to trick users into interacting with embedded links, which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+ludo
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20631942332.pdf
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/devigupaduzapon.pdf
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/71769156326.pdf
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21042145594.pdf
    • http://www.synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30797189712.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876b58805a2613462539b0fa610dcb16/gegejapa.pdf
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/vigewewevomezewilom.pdf
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210924193221.pdf
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1432600550.pdf
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/62522483997.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1dc228831---mavewakonibojelav.pdf
    • http://jawarakreasi.com/file/wotuwixo.pdf
    • http://whatcanidoforyou.eu/publish/file/bafipaxogov.pdf
    • https://abriganature.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/fetolakubaladetugupolog.pdf
    • https://bisleri.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejufid.pdf
    • http://munnarteabungalows.com/userfiles/file/37448220433.pdf
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozopedafizeru.pdf
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/58773102609.pdf
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65960574797.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007d877ec0b6decb2b2fe39e49ec18f6/vevatekatuvarovaj.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ac631db58---88690588548.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000afc5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7d7.bin
b05f23291d549b3f3b6398e17d7abdf09c9f9523d26e0fa712cb53c7ce8de81c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D7 13932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea52.bin
7cad3bfaf08bd33ddc9cf2d2eefc92bc3ee0ed38fc4091309246345b0b61f52e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA52 9876 bytes