Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1b9cea1bd8a4ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c17b5042f76c70e52be04ebf978c7bd1 SHA-1: 00ee4706b7b2af1913faabda792ac68610c72ac1 SHA-256: 8c1b9cea1bd8a4adaa21cb4b213abac4b27073d5f6f8bd31087fef2a7df70f5b
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 are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains. The embedded URLs likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 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://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7745b8922f7645d827476008527b85c/sedulabopugenodezo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33948817124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigotupoxiwuwasapufegipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/nilimoxevinudibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/4235244729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photofetimages.com/13964061366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ee9417d32---97678411930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6a5409d2a---6300108030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/toxekufuxeridij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408b181687d---tumewawafiguzonukimipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305bdef02cf---39735890474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85473051682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48677793275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/94900910400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/fegesivozekisifegatodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/luzuvevisexuramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d29c96901d---69997960538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e40d681e0---rodatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/5727441521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop/contents/77166057218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/10614643191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325f63acf59---wifakarokimadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331aea522a7---54675910584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=msts+download+in+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_off0000b0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A5 14164 bytes
SHA-256: fc8219bb0c6d436a5b2e3bc0b91651759e09890e2e18c4346a0a36c1440e9e83
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDF 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 8c82c99971d011efa35e1f99e088869aab14783876c7a993e662b722a63ebfa7