Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1779e2a515cb7b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 07:46:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f9c627f2ad6e52be8f0ce6a5c43b22e4 SHA-1: 277452b3241cdda8625ff7ee66c17d98ba7022ed SHA-256: b1779e2a515cb7b869cf2f5e9138e6edb192fcf0f17873df3a67c1224107e15d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a screenshot image designed to trick users into clicking a link, which redirects to a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or facilitate phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9347940703.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stagegator.scorchmark.com/stagegator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41743269348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10db7b54d054b5e9d84a0369230e6b75/80198996008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/21153564277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/74172094984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expnavi.com/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/venirapexisugewapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6782177635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/gexoborixiwomuvasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/rogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/5497611862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingwedge.com/uploads/assets/file/jelafenididajowapanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81345965498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96872171280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/wogaxuladazedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proficlim.ru/public/userfiles/file/pudogavufiporatizifofefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusdesignwebsite.com/userfiles/file/gojizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.com/upload/editor/file/1653135412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613402a4d133f---vipifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b511d6e54da1d2a902e3f9123c255e8/78076274889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/nozinuwagokoxiwasunatafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef092582dc---vifimamelametogebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bollywood+movies+subtitles+downloadPDF 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_off0000ac49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC49 14484 bytes
SHA-256: fed295dd275ec1cef4cc5a1b6ca741a72ed47daced2280ff104e023e4a6e8cd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB3 10868 bytes
SHA-256: aea55a1c27bbd8e7760c1c43c551112f358165636b2a688001eec5f91d6ff2de
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1