Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1980bf844eaa7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:27:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 76a91f870bbafac3f51343addd0ec7ab SHA-1: 0d1b114e5e8dd5dc542b5075b484eee2946d83bb SHA-256: ca1980bf844eaa7cb1c56bc2323c62715768d3d1a7f915b2911e33c8ffd4e3b8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The document's structure, being image-heavy with minimal text, further supports the 'screenshot lure' heuristic, indicating the user is expected to click on an embedded link disguised as part of an image.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+faustus+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b582cea3ad---guzikafolenaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/wigona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/13904529273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210919083110778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/bobuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/46111005485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/13437605352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151ee3eeb24b---9941275523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b54b4a5ce---71414574460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/gonisawugebisisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/96577061620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c3b7e27c2---4844426757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/48515994730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/24978010697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e29cc4f63---59590379616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/pokobimazukusipupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5b5c6b63fb5efe386d738998ba02bf/94194181286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/wudesanabuvifavejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/11666719154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbond.hk/editor_upload/file/54362449033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdad-egypt.com/userfiles/file/61004341767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/22689949482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/56339413371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/gatisogaga.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_off0000af7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF7D 14408 bytes
SHA-256: 1534be27f14cfa8080e23e4e27751805599d94129a939ca61d854547a0fa4501
font_01_sfnt_off0000d34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB62 10820 bytes
SHA-256: d0d08333096f9f760ea127bbb3664f16e1f25def62cd3379089be0d0d877d249