Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c5d69f6ce304956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:27:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0c0842bc544c45aa18184e1cc14afc90 SHA-1: 7235f905b4049121a570b6fcdbc8db7c2fe9c265 SHA-256: 3c5d69f6ce30495621c485c2292ccaeb8785687f3eb4acca08780c2a3117b0fc
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a malicious screenshot lure, designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 6

  • 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 http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/45456463303.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/wutanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavoxopeluziguvesamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu1ntt0hvrf9a4o3fkujcgi4nj/fesixojotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fadfd77b82---panujaginevodenasiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/xifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/14641554465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyy.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210916_025030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/97043241523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awfiowv.love-mrt.com/upload/files/jeruxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevugisudoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/xexatelowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55224162311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/faragurume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77844735013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/wikinekujudojimudeterome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313c220fbb3---49776066440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/putuvazevufofuwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48273318841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27163244545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/43805191203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3309992208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/80957842530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/fokakexipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/winewuwaratudutuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/99383034725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+9+emojis+downloadPDF 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_off0000b389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB389 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 34beae3f2a54b28bef5019651080428e03094ebd9424c2d34b0bb4feb44d9859
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41B 13964 bytes
SHA-256: ba179eaa9056cd58737548fc73e1155789383ad0ecd34170a701ad9a7a31c0c3