Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8c5bdbe9b09581e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b20e3f334796cf322ccb261be8f79a5a SHA-1: 0d5454b73349cc60bad2b07e842f7611ea64a62a SHA-256: f8c5bdbe9b09581e38ccf89a0952da76045119eb2636d0217c84b15981c73db0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it's an image-based document designed to trick users into clicking a link, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution. Multiple URLs are present, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_79D474B7D13C94D2.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/55511620320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/53376654598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ans5680.preneed91.com/upload/files/84584737853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/sezukujemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/jemupevujibosupevuzajejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5981083533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5cdbc22e8e3a02919a65662f56a6a5c/77364933466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/gosiwonikimoburim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teamcode.net/upload/files/88122660930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/15933939924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/wegavekakiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/vitetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29104153088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/83226941946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/14095213301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/kidogijata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/36684864052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgmvnkj2trcr34vidkgesc3b76/sobepimexepomivavaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/78465568861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/vetizoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/53243450607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326fb0e1ad2---pufevinemarula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+view+private+instagram+profiles+without+followingPDF 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_off0000aeb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEB1 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 1f1027af236eed3f2764f53aa34be34ac812d75131f42f16f85304df5ecfff96
font_01_sfnt_off0000c840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 14024 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2671743bbb086511e584705b0c663a45cc8ba2c5a7f5ba635ad55bdaf79b0a

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