Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c416a768006a7bbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 10:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 1b7fa1422846b80a6db28245c8311d2f SHA-1: eecba5c4447962328d8881c20febe7a2c8e5f8ac SHA-256: c416a768006a7bbe286a16a4248afebc78722373de6d4d9740debc28abba35bc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document is identified as a phishing lure due to its structure, containing only an image and a clickable action. It hosts numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

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 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://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.keizerco.nl/userFiles/file/16539409422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77722681740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zooiguana.pl/app/webroot/media/files/webape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surinmajestic.com/phya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19171016313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615616e94b305---29134728622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/25373539805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/92755025384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/2109290209023348495j0k4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/36101641052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufujowejuviramedaweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16154195ca8f03---21860495968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/9878446525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tivavaxifage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavionescodeinsa.com/userfiles/lejogibatenujezajubige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewojejinafiretixixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/kujojidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asbehm5vm4m4e6d64jlb97ppn2/rekidivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents/files/29500452414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/86384295644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuahoanglong.com/luutru/files/tonadomuferavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/10421126102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/gizizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=walking+on+a+thin+linePDF 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_off0000b253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA6A 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 0091cd8457aa801af85a40e499d465e382a61cbca376d321c62d10cab1f32549
font_02_sfnt_off0000e131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE131 14460 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0929d1d3199a29f41294a59a9dd30083a2cd4ae4f1fc0241fcfa063fdb4ba3