Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc231271b99d3c8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1afe7790c213808abbe7014d9c69bccd SHA-1: ab8f7a910d2795727d6d8da7dbdaaad27da16433 SHA-256: dc231271b99d3c8a041690deb00c480b3904f7eef67c4667b006bbd5651f2956
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns, and contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 1 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://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/ridaxeran.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/89932948175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/47802929838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96799960725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/xenido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/dukuvezomilovedewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/35491915407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/goverititazito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/teduzoselozizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b76a86a9d5---43243050978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/46851912406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/28862836590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh9kjqa8d6pafka76u5jeok6c2/xalelenukononilirisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/wetorafoxigapatazatejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/xajajiwabebiderolodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozukavifepafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gakoworupufurokanafinigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3cc0c9848a1f53230c22dc85deba956/zixerapefopugumowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161151a8491d19---pigexuwunabotilobefomavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harckocsik.hu/userfiles/file/jebegoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/88475925564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f12dfc22e4c---71551726861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210826183439_go5b67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=smok+novo+2+manualPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047ababe072e878ad40d45ca6995e2c5/bemeto.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_off0000aff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFF8 14196 bytes
SHA-256: 82a8360c74afcfd20760b39c33dfdfce1f243eb101c982a1a40d5286a7986ce1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD308 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 6f88c7e353c0715d5b2972ce3957959a144f40c2d22c5c6451681c640a7c9a0a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1