Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c2901f43ae40be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:21:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 764a993d9e48dfaff0440bdfbc19e6c1 SHA-1: 8869d3e5ca4c44ccfe9575a11073ae805bf5fb9c SHA-256: d9c2901f43ae40bef89f74e2f4251f8c568a8b928426aee0973a4ebaa59be878
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document's structure and small size are consistent with an image-based lure designed to trick users into clicking a link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 8

  • 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 69 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/sumuvikufefogobij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338a978559476734e1df9cf624484c24/28932077619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce191132c527778ec4fbf4f13bffb16/52283210216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf2d550d447bf4865574bde9de7ad853/15508359771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/rakefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c8d01e4923e5ce54dc82d460103f31c/23683221067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c153f88615d---4110709507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899ea9b716d---89281442660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/32071313597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/29259966476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa71c321b30---66203477253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787314dfc43---68991082807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09fd7b2a38---4536578734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gabedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/79549478111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/meguzowusibogoxofusuwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1336661cec---93264093066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e414ef3b2---betumivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/19350960397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uetty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77566081507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq5q8s2l4a2a3o7mdt67396t4m/galixirizoride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb2c732d221491f32ebb26331bf0f14a/42131220041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/jemijalajatew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=computational+methods+for+quantitative+finance+pdfPDF 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_off0000b4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F3 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 41c1c4d6dd66631ec1b81d529b04165b73c95c73fc4c362da364cddb81f24c18
font_01_sfnt_off0000cede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEDE 13972 bytes
SHA-256: 0863c87d8efc4e19f59dd3612c57b9103b8efaed288824a3ad78a0d28b7ef713
font_02_sfnt_off0000f11e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1