Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8619a4fe90dbecee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-03 01:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3beca666cabcab073525b39f9f075d4b SHA-1: dd8eac73879406b6a7852d9dcceaec55a5a661f7 SHA-256: 8619a4fe90dbeceeeccc241f0d1ccffea4bfc760add950b9e9c5a6dad272c6f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its structure, containing minimal text and a clickable action, typical of a screenshot-based attack. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a chain of redirects to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing campaign designed to lead users to further malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 2 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://affectif.ro/data/Image/file/82138399412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109182207416143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/23382190262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/dasovopitexasisebewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/kototisewelubinuwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60858929546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/13871740653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/vugesemufomuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210920/file/vulekutikafiwufulisogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/gowididewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instit.ac/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3348194746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/64570458883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizimijeboxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazetavk.ru/img/file/tezijuwuxivufomekefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/13633951267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/17556968737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411de137ef9---latalixarumesikipilixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/fusejuzukujirinuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/gekonuvukuzego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents/files/33565915034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnqd3heuffp2senaibp3d81gvt/48230372530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u77rkifjp55sj0prsqio7tg7d1/5702428049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajni3333.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/88346485079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/13283718191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewazadafupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=now+that+i+see+you+tangled+lyricsPDF 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_off0000b058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB058 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c86a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC86A 14412 bytes
SHA-256: 76527de501e45b226ad3119206cfb002756951fa7c6559d3be45926403204fc2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2F 10924 bytes
SHA-256: f3b04ba717bf8f5e1aade7eeae2124f9e449545541e12d481090f9fcb53c2ae6