Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8778ee8722f3bb0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 16:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d5c26a61aeac9e2d216e54ee2f59c7c9 SHA-1: 7a0719b5e634ce0b4b37707d50a5a16d3e859451 SHA-256: 8778ee8722f3bb0b8138f2b8e9d0ef66054e8db04f9628728651bfae307aed73
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to various compromised CMS upload storage locations and disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs suggests a link farm intended to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 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://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46854582708.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/20054393478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedufafovedesuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675cd0e487d73e74517e663020c80c2e/moziwuvanebumesofojujemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/nukiroronasukalujajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/notodeligerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/benegapiwitizoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutnia.pl/userfiles/file/67865032615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/dimowuziwulorokobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/sogajapepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopaede4you.de/userfiles/file/lenigulafoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/53869572253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palletgoanloi.com/img-dn/files/92969309165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/vevamezefenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipidosutepaxuxebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewosadubirojovademaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/mijopajufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5814baf0fc244f191a26d31b5559aa8a/romodutalizawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revanada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b220ddabab---64280617152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/zajawadigovubegibakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109290606076118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=wow+bfa+how+to+unlock+world+quests+on+altsPDF 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_off0000ad97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD97 14276 bytes
SHA-256: 383ad3d10f6fecea5b57904b4ed00d6e05d6c691d08c9fd68864ebb9730615c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD10D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE924 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 0a9902fb0839995a0b978e672ba929bfef64381567b8feaddf714082bce41ee3