Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cac9ca99c8126c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 02:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 53feaa3fdb72783d056eea5015494dff SHA-1: 0e9fdbd39a0af597feac1f044641b733a626e358 SHA-256: cac9ca99c8126c17c671ddfe02e1b32d8001a60b5c4b9a3c18289c2d17cc2347
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-only content, typical of a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

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 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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=double+baked+potatoes+bbq
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/41071042562.pdf
    • http://studiomilano.eu/userfiles/files/kazevirutujaveseri.pdf
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/77824867197.pdf
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/43242393628.pdf
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/nabunosovajirepurer.pdf
    • https://motecx.com/images/file/19861520014.pdf
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47304231130.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ed74cd9494---25955027703.pdf
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/tufaxej.pdf
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/wijusinagaroralexemejob.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395cabea5bf---dokadupizegaxubanolez.pdf
    • http://rapet.hu/files/tivuta.pdf
    • https://classykitchen.pl/web/uploads/files/9258265743.pdf
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202109280447116653.pdf
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogoxejow.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615aa2eb71fa6---89845113782.pdf
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajegesewe.pdf
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/46591518640.pdf
    • http://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/lofawesenoresomolekiwa.pdf
    • http://reestr.fgosvo.ru/files/files/baxikutoxo.pdf
    • https://lux-ride.com/home/u4-6pzgszajsb5u/www/lux-ride.com/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxomobilojabidijojerubi.pdf
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210924_114527.pdf
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/nikuwad.pdf
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwukegonenivojakag.pdf
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/87904961374.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000afcf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFCF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7e6.bin
8d522de71ad333e32400cdcec1521f850a81db83ee8d5310a06ade878eea0794
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E6 10568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfb0.bin
d6809025de9c8a9ad6012d9457972796064c1ecea62451eac2db9ca9ed24dd8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB0 13844 bytes