Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 400cb0d7b8658082…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 15:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ef1bd1680c295280e5783b370c9bdfb9 SHA-1: 54ce71cb5f5218c49beab34b47a7da815b325891 SHA-256: 400cb0d7b86580827482c9927a7deb35fc3679c420ea9001721926ea08990ee0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable link, a common tactic to deceive users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics point to a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, ultimately leading to a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://mlspoland.co/files/file/pininirevewigez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/21437945191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/bumenerirumoridaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/17775462963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/mijodobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87319789232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/fesogekidedelemogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e4f38e892---wogudoradawijigusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/ribafufezasimosamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawivedobizirivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chsins.tw/uploads/files/202109161738039923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/vewalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bc8ee69e0---260211219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benixatogimifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/fusasijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanhoaphat.vn/userfiles/file/66688288721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/wugutaxaxutesafipebamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/17979503889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/xiboxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/86764529731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/67433676441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/76592054163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25176865766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yunglin.com/uploadpic/files/40263345475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/kipelujenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b91c20661---xasowunowipoxigewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/79756448610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/dobupigaperetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=watch+somewhere+in+time+online+freePDF 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_off0000b2a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A1 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 01628aed40d660beba0f374c2ee7814056080916e759931aca53e9fb935d2b79
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE314 14512 bytes
SHA-256: be47aaac20f4f27982107cf7029161c58221e8acc1a7c4e8ddb2ea9c682ec354