Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d9116229c1f473e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9d3bc0da0e1800d7aad78d50a5775c9 SHA-1: dabc009655ad78afd168ae203802eeda18b3a84e SHA-256: 8d9116229c1f473e6c63306e5334e1e0f37e2ab1cd3238e81a41dc9c4af7d6ee
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing an image-only presentation with clickable links to external sites. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/75751777206.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ychnjl.net/userfiles/files/34824769029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/fukufenuzibifusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d735843a95---23579276497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/26698507380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/66779296059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ab00aafcb---28951741579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/82664540138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvlr5fk9uq9uqb9jbcc8tagm75/55533462006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/62839843135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/fenomisowaxiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/77652716412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0aac886582---72758309772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3099a2e83aa3ace40102678fdb5fff/35973119689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/wezexupolawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c591313191---98374000705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/suwawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k677ec38tph5ucka3ns5n7lej3/29684462253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/janovipugosolivobalafeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096206a99cb3---90304352065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nimdv6lmem4qo1u2u5f8h2uqb8/bowobifegufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=toyota+corolla+2018+manual+transmissionPDF 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_off0000ae9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9C 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 717a3e1b443bc046ae1a8d995906094c25a352544c23898e1c5737bec31a4414
font_01_sfnt_off0000c815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC815 14052 bytes
SHA-256: bd7522cb45391f76f2fe9b0ed532b85665581cdf00766c745091f6e036ce1649
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1