Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f666916edf355e7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4563c25ae68d2ea2daace3894c991060 SHA-1: eb1ec859600f5ce82dfe093f71a54855717e46dc SHA-256: f666916edf355e7f0944e114ead27c74dd51d9af1f0a76f7ccbb87b855443502
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 clickable links. The heuristics indicate it's designed to look like a document but contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farms are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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 1 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://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38969411618.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/75913492352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40062853318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/foberej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/3520395932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/livekerilopoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210921185447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodufukizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f29cf7f8bcc874baf7928bf4e2ede2/bideresibumukuwotawifati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133eca003f4e---31816951480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9266877c2ecc04a170f8e50cfab95b/6548563187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/kobuxagafuwowaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfug64mmnce0u66s41gct6elaq/71349710663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/21954417569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_5CCB51F319032BE6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/44578274891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/buruxivepibonorike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/nunarategomepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/voborefoluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a7396c4e5---47479263536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agmapure.com/upload/files/29363166992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muluronenabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a92a56be2e9df03525e84990be44b779/99447780435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/6912453735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=visual+encyclopedia+of+dinosaurs+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_off0000b430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB430 14500 bytes
SHA-256: 5dce98f51837034128e8f8143c14bd3a3a2225dc3c1a7800ac23caa23573b957
font_01_sfnt_off0000d88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88C 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 2f1c6b3e83d5597bf23a238e13b7229f90cf545da42fa28dc421cbc2c5fa65e4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1