Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0aff85f69cdf225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 04:14:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: afc0b81e1e350615ee47bf3ebb403caf SHA-1: 3489aad05225b84e3d6ea43432b16ff5ae498e3b SHA-256: f0aff85f69cdf22527865950edbbd6d00d382d408f9fc013747b5bd70364a8c1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded links. The heuristics indicate it's designed to trick users into clicking through to external sites, likely for malicious purposes. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially compromised or malicious content.

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 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.
  • 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://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/1422134379614e43194d24e.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/15432034188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weighlessthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuluvubudaxevisotafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/257628144614bf5aa59c3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilojofilasiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/fumimufevowukijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/gezalebimosutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepoo.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/93136638155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210903022232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/xozinopekinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136469df2e06---kopulutusulajimeluximore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioghittigargnano.com/userfiles/files/pazujafetewutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/bililozovafutitajuwedoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148585293151---41730367969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77999421503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/luruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/65950469909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1500716600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexxeopaint.com/upload/files/6682831268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/96041974042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://athaj2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/gomusepajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/jiwudajaxamuzajewaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibuzaburujapuriraguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/49404864305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e448ca4db6---49797263035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=watch+soccer+live+stream+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB32F 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 48a3e39f55b3f893180cf7be2ec54c7224ddc33a981c728543312d7e243e6951
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB92 13788 bytes
SHA-256: 645f2587f2e3f68068e6a73554d7c9a1f2e1444d106dfb7d77b10752bfe70463
font_02_sfnt_off0000edd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1