Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8f57b9435f8cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 17:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2cde03daff2f1fd545a0f01320b0e8c7 SHA-1: 4dcc12e85558284661aa323e061daf01fff12f32 SHA-256: 2f8f57b9435f8cce50c8b7d1134bd05b2964bc15b56f3df3a068dc984f7ffac9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs a common screenshot lure technique, indicated by its small size and image-heavy content, to entice users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics confirm the presence of link farms pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/togazumevubovodi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jm4v6k2oe9ectsa7fcq9i87v0/89202022633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/wikenolinopinuxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69539717717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/leguwapanotugonuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilevawumekopofafeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/75623849274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/babelixeborazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/zaluximin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denetimmusavirlik.com/userfiles/file/gidumixatozili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614317622c414---35058015482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/lekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/49480122573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/30475496226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/30013742778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/5464417561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405efa80dc2---dupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/dokaliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/biwafinometasubitopojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081aaaafe587adf78dcb1e9b81400d83/75316243106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109150920591461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/95810432191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210928113416_1464364306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=nemesis+isaac+asimov+pdfPDF 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_off0000b0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8CD 14316 bytes
SHA-256: d3fa706d8b6bba92abc170540fd4d6e950e1a2e5dd606ab91d567c90c0ce2003
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8C 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 9bcd06216b9bc289889ff3683208bd3ea7a1ad68d9d50c04769131a5bf7f6607