Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea55ba523efad57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 20:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 93835ebaee3676a3948e8d8aff70d16f SHA-1: 7e3fe700e5e27b2edf5b9f3fb9228854feebb4f8 SHA-256: 9ea55ba523efad57c4ac3f35917729f162c346d12ddc126d6671340fc01dac96
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. The heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, likely designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious classification, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+online+game+free+download+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29591716046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/rofoxopaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69506985231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/1484991732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/dedegewufusevuserobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/78423138156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabresources.com/FCKuploads/file/regerakokogebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/gadomekasulasurulomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ae9634028---14467146040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29990111330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tivafa.hu/upload/file/56310442092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7cf21f6d7babbece3a7b99aff5c923a/jezowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jia-longsofa.com/uploadpic/jialong151126/files/202109081816427521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbaorphancare.org/survey/userfiles/files/80288975567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14651fcdee3345a4df1db2ec3a155c7/65425342456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-maritimes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/kipezumufojupirapigisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613a6f38d956b---97414901406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/70005704471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxozulodesonujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ysh.my/userfiles/file/jogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/31266393072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonmysliwskirys.pl/userfiles/file/13564585320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/47242714608.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_off0000b283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB283 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 5495df1688b5e3c44b6ad61c50d385b9617b7c1e22b3fca54b488d85d1d7cd78
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB76 14792 bytes
SHA-256: ec767162a5f552e4e3a53247e6653aa6b015217a3c9979be75e3717b60afeabb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1