Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dd51402cb206aa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 07:42:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a49ca03eda31532aa90db32acb8507ff SHA-1: 0a4e07d6302d81ba108d408f6dac0c80087052f9 SHA-256: 8dd51402cb206aa48650335283a79a2fb16cd151398f112672f4033d06927e26
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure, likely using an image-only interface to trick users into clicking malicious links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, aiming to redirect users to further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 0 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=strategies+that+work+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e30b4a80ff---81973987163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazagurodobowubepunija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/gupazari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/50724557741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinsg.com/files/fckeditor/file/84573924832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/lemejidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/ronetaxisumuxibadipezazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/70927318601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/50303848653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujusupasimaxepula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/84403193033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/54610035767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp/files/99629385491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atrqgs86bbutbmgckqr8l99rn0/10987605620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevorhannant.com/64155405043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/zorojawefokisoruzugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/15217675097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/garipibabaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/40928717086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b475e50ada---laxuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493869d2e2b---pimanolebazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/93363785780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000acb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACB6 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 7edf0c4fb4349d66e5a26d59888cd29f8241884017b78b7ccf3186e32b9e8c69
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ddee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEE 13956 bytes
SHA-256: d7ce921f0a6786c4249b6c0c99fe6f7da6f9a38d782f5a7118e3357cb4661dea