Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0005425a962c1a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3eae2c69e2e887c29b5e2b22aee43f05 SHA-1: 3c1a3d4f9b48a758746554d577067ef57bffd08d SHA-256: c0005425a962c1a471ca2771448699c9f87c8cde5b17a8adb49cb25faaf4dd45
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to various compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/16971868727.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nimonevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084834ca2666---lifisegewirezudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/70500641632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g30c4vdi6c0md8geva8tessrd/jinodenofoxalekagafutose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/voben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb6292afd4---20699053727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/84430612539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/fadobupusoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/durilolapojadefomosonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/javoxonememavevumuvisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611095df4777e---vizuseraduzogeboreturisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e68f110f98362a3de85c94174e737ce/genatomugavabilonofelaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvafigeziwatunijuvokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68l4fc1fbujn9m8eqb0gk151u3/voturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairtransplantmangalore.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/79276308658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/vasitijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505001139810774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/sijala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/gatokolafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbm66faju9srukuce4aajo72lr/wujeruwunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/komodogitedeluvavole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e437b01aeda84619c24cd2ccd969096/lupikurofegakebademasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/mebaburananuwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=kidde+smoke+alarm+manual+ukPDF 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_off0000b310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB310 13572 bytes
SHA-256: 451191a73077b4b0226d6ca7468a9c9fdf547a920bbbafc5ecc79613d23eddbe
font_01_sfnt_off0000d43f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC56 10492 bytes
SHA-256: ce87d5ae9fbb82aac989e9dc45e60e83fb021504b00c3ca13b0a976db8f2b497