Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c75cca89ae9d1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 82cd55378a33a58ac710b0e4b6efd9ca SHA-1: 249dc4c930fb7025ba16980385e7d790163bd089 SHA-256: 9c75cca89ae9d1f2c377c9e8e8fd8993de2ce922c12003680eceec8a8ac1224c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to various compromised websites and disposable hosting. The presence of multiple URLs, including one with a 'kindly fill in the form' parameter, suggests a phishing campaign or a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 70 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kindly+fill+in+the+form PDF link annotation
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955004ce719---31164243950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210723154237566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/tuwinoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/jimibejosazelugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/panujomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6p78goooft04mb4jhm3amaib3/xowiwaborosuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d085cfd62---kipifaxuluxixixawerafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/powalonaduwotebesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/9613890846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/26816477564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73232026760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/61266782765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/79197500519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124110f0261b---3484596342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normandyclassof79stl.com/clients/e/e1/e16d7b8530e96d8d426d6b963c92b0b5/File/37479555837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/vipuvajajamusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolazogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/64607091793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35c30b14d0bbae49f613f4fe07bbf654/66463776358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24719622932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc1e40da7ad---6802463188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0npsrl8kkvsuknprl33ll51dc4/66975130902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/berar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b00b36893d29d4a3c2f644e5aca60b/81119737677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/61661623164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primehorseproperty.com/userfiles/files/50175888711.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_off0000b889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB889 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 82a59a89502d9be3540e3932ba1d3ced019cae5f3d851062f8f1d62695cd9673
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC5 14156 bytes
SHA-256: 8da2a6fdc35a3192a55ed5b757f671a94829ef4755e5cc4234f68917f42a342b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1