Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce0fedcd4b4509b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:14:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 456f9bde2b3213697dd8ae7b1d580375 SHA-1: 14ebc6846d80d69ab99f990742f95f4a091ff2e5 SHA-256: dce0fedcd4b4509b68f03658b9bab6a937ac971d50c64eab70dff2ac85684c09
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image-based lure, typical of phishing campaigns, to entice users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised websites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, with the embedded URLs likely leading to further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66364831175.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4vonmc6a926fvi2d9bt3jt1rm/15122396612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15750990435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/15683030882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/fevapewove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwogoramikegikamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46499500820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021092304313473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/80489778003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/99688795229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/betovatuzanuvivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/20087408182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muguworowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eca552a359bd95477de524bbfdf09ca/panazawule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58578711507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80319035112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nirinovekizijamomotezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/nenobaraxanowakotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/wopezatatopododisimavazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/serejujumorujaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470a120a0e0---50829578455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54412532396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109191408237028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/20441518787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+barron%27s+listening+audioPDF 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_off0000ada6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B8 14112 bytes
SHA-256: 5d05a59a2f6cf99c3b6174cef2affca5f0cc031e34f81421b22c75c87419c579
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E2 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 0dff3f3c08db5a3432b88cb2f8dfd6ecfc9ce46f56d5fa09722d911c18d2d9df