Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878993cf58b67a25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 04:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 48ff285aded731b86882f1a3929ff21f SHA-1: 8415be9eceb2ebfdc03f2cc74f0bfa4bb6b7db35 SHA-256: 878993cf58b67a2567a182e07a29be579d4a3806267ec644e4455c79b5d50321
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 image-only nature and the presence of clickable links. Several heuristics indicate that the document links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad2825976b---zevabimez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/13550533643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/zobolegujenevagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090511253296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/78074149419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/92219560064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614389ce3ab73---nibegofuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/susumovutaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/bivixomitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumibewilawonigukanurano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/91208916283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnguyen.vn/media/ftp/file/kowobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/kodowekagapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e08bcaed6---56847386136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/19524998510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/nawuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazenetaxivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/41309131280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/woporil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs-nippon-cp.com/mailmagazine/upload/files/lagunetusivawutezadufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/dopudijobalereruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///zosizumikesonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/fisuxixitusonefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rome+invades+greecePDF 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_off0000b09e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB09E 14188 bytes
SHA-256: 0524e772deace1eb0f204858ca4db843bdc0216471502df71a465dc0f4f72399
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ff562e940a0a911a1790e251caec961c42268a4dac7a1ee17c16fb387dcd5d5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1