Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae8f26d36fbf8b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 03:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8ed9770116312067809dedc51ead0614 SHA-1: 445b1cdffc055960bde49a124b47220682d32ec7 SHA-256: dae8f26d36fbf8b18d87d50175caa083be1c3a2552052e3272e98b03b352d06b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' indicates the document is image-based with clickable actions, a common tactic for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spiritual+number+555 PDF link annotation
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/14254338420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/vewifujisetomezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/negovotemezixamonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manegedebuitenwijck.nl/uploads/file/67397065096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/84977554076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463b46a5cbfdbf221d5115de463448e7/67642216978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/45553609992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/gutususipasinexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/44836264527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2fb57ddebcb6642f95115df9a9fddb/tisogupowaseseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e05751e42b---70487122307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78561515792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/falelakasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613439800b4e7---nuvolatodasonevexajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/gepipoxelawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/wikegavapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/wakowalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/bosemevodawaxitewusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/wodilafujomesamewunulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/fipebamuminuwupipovegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/46143913599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakbah.healthybitespk.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxolobemulomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quizai.com/uploads/files/pavedulubukifuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/26948461793.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_off0000b208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB208 14312 bytes
SHA-256: 3455574a7050550ed53ca4892541a413878b2b9bae3cbd8151d9521ff6b1dc6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5A 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 8c144e66dcdd24001ff11a523006d7c9e7b9d3f84fe22bf6712c11fd67616ea0