Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 223cbf7dd90ffa6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 17:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 46b0e186c1ba05b4eba974df50186cb1 SHA-1: 21d293a28b4ad136b5e590fdd54c477cb1756b77 SHA-256: 223cbf7dd90ffa6a213dafc2588da0b120102ee72b55ec8d6b9cfa5a3bd03102
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-heavy content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to various compromised websites and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baby+belly+button+care PDF link annotation
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/22320177732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966ed5977ee---zenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfb997e5b35---vatugabobabavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramssschool.org/userfiles/file/93329393396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/gogujurax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6eb81bbe3f---62035285084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/sosofisafijesukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/jilezosogekororovosasagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/wokifanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/97216059149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47670292314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/25515202720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/89839589372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/92748642830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8025a4309288bad533097d8da29534e/gozukubamulelivofege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202108151555511531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608909bcca802---kebopepifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/wumixagewijexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tm-africa.com/beta/public/uploads/cms_filescms_files/93115955452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghalqi53rgb394stgr6l374u4o/5621536858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125ef3c54ca9---36978019356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/691e7b44d204ecdda90bc0b42fdfad63/rudowaxujumifiviliwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72035468657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/kifapumidesel.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_off0000b7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C2 13896 bytes
SHA-256: 61bec4f5d8bd5491c710ec27a66b6059a5195d38c8d1f144d8a084cfc37e9dcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D4 10372 bytes
SHA-256: a077e2bbd70c9a36486fa62c91e0499ec98f530fc3b20ba135eb26bafaa91d64