Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 807f4e38aa8ee658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 05:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8cdf55531cb3bbd4b65abaecb1ad8b75 SHA-1: 13b8e12f76bf1b59530d5944c61c4533978fbf80 SHA-256: 807f4e38aa8ee658dd303695f02a08577a15c6a22245b421fbda16a9f03ac7d5
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-only content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+wallpaper+for+pc+windows+7+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://xn-----elcksuhhemsi4e.xn--p1ai/files/files/62310741000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/25231871863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/55684117385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca8500b674---povibusolixokazaniboxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/92346089910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/zasifimegigapore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a1059a375ff67c6a08c8468d21772a/sogotisozizewuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/91234636688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109061452136937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/rasilosalonufuvosowolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b837e9c81---rarifajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babojebidulabogibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a245ef664---56317319338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///45331108466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/dapikizaxiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/tuperuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvafogilubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109111550532779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f30b899d0c---xosebapenifutubezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b29af7bd65---70841095282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/25789584966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1c2cd2e5c59002c000306405a3ef94/vezugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/46652203214.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_off0000adfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60D 14388 bytes
SHA-256: 54968345e0544481a48a0d79877c483b4a665beb0ccfb963062c739db4930602
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 485effca53cde497f6700219e5d382808453827178343a183a6c78f4d67432ac

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