Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8560f99b81142fbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 12b3557e4a630ea09eadb1881188a538 SHA-1: 326981c0824a579a2a20fa4286cb84035aed093b SHA-256: 8560f99b81142fbb49cea22dab847a914329d7bf6f43a9372c274f5cc455d50a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous links to compromised websites. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 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://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/litixafeselor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/nidufixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd6e4b5a9bdc4fef6cd75860ac5a23a/74103495411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/95988576555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/62588326324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0hfqp2jat2s7lr32f7gef28iu/jeturajosovote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85865168905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd029ec9ab493de6d4c672cd9101b503/77010669691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a212f543b7e---sakefovurajobipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737408a6faf---50786441066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/tuzalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/repedosaxutujabumuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffc48b895b36042a7b809bc67b6abc4/wexemefiwoputigaxikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/pepavokisodopifaruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/21476801060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/lifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161201ddae0f38---41607298907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevenetianmask.com/clients/71561/File/77135320233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endemic-capital.ru/uploads/files/68692036805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/punojofowabaxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/16776771693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c454d3a3e53d896ba1845cc801617852/93095242527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/jewolawasutalatilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/30721584792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+pdf+voice+reader+androidPDF 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_off0000b131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB131 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC948 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 55f3f78bc5a7475c6c45ff0edfbe5fd3624efce4c9e26fa3a06ffbc5c990ec5e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FC 14124 bytes
SHA-256: 94b88ac02c90424ebecc11159d6987f0b9567d33f039241873c330a481efff0c