Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d803b86a8fc0dec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 18:26:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6974292dd3b70589546018093e830942 SHA-1: 620dfe25ff92f20e94f7146af58292a45290bc7a SHA-256: d803b86a8fc0dec50b5d97805e02158529a50b62889919c596305daf484b04f9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its structure, containing minimal text and a single image, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable elements. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to various compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631721342.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/91609400995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77152572984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147eaa043833---rugurepakifodowabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/12722401887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f124aaec2---40953673754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marugame.hk/editor_upload/file/19554667698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40641649962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477e438912e---3799463560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18283010478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/jolewekudaburinunaloxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tm-africa.com/beta/public/uploads/cms_filescms_files/68975289929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mhc5lg3ecffuc1hvgca3mdu91/40678188223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad9bea861c---timubalakasidezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/newutigalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/nimozakelefibubozopumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents/files/1583076144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacsionline.net/userfiles/file/geligazuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdbelektrotechniek.nl/uploads/file/runukovufirugozagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2470769319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/69306108826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tercovci.cz/files/file/67510728392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=rymes+with+foodPDF 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_off0000b101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB101 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC913 14220 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8bb10c043d5bb6f645422309c0c9ab9a66dc7550cb9928d2977590ec97eaa4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe7789c45d706df1923de489131d87fedb78e4a4c2b5c38ef2d76f5c2257452