Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08e50ef1796039e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c9e1ba7afee8bac2b631fb35f58a54e5 SHA-1: 9d2c393d17d2881584418ff69a79dfd4fb5b2c2d SHA-256: d08e50ef1796039efb000a6be9245b3582794f52c224997694aa068eca224273
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 hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to various compromised or disposable hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 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 http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/miluzemuwarupafibuvov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/mopofofumugigijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/ludud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/76555970279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikomezejatawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perila-vrn.ru/userfiles/file/17066667884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/porubuxodubugiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c8046d4edcd28164c0dbef1ac73646/nabilisifile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/65359522506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/48158108779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10168817014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/vatelefezanaxadazisibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/roriniwavobegugefini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klccpa.com/userfiles/file/40120783142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/28850601662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/nubiwajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a689962eb8a63396f21fd680020372e2/28194434905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27040528feb7460c3c8bfc48c16c16b9/87069477520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/bonoxomela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/sofaburikiwolizulorivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/saligisenutuzirigedekimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/sitozozurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f3c96cb8e---tiwosimipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/48780290890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=god+of+war+ii+download+ppssppPDF 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_off0000af15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c72c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC72C 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6113dd517425bf246d6477a6920faee38e6a68da6fca0c2f36d686de2c251b
font_02_sfnt_off0000dec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC8 13944 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8987c4ce2e67c15c508fe438b6b3f9cfad3bf2ff81826d8965b9f74632ef5a