Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8c7a7cc23a4c34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e0d5b4e76334a9fea603c563aae9ec35 SHA-1: 387efdec9a3074b128e4c320c0780740e2ed2d78 SHA-256: fb8c7a7cc23a4c343506127762bd5531a237feb080dee4cf3b5fddc9064a08b6
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. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be an image-based lure, typical for phishing campaigns.

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 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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xanthoproteic+test+for+proteins+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ckd-otto.com/contents//files/84363342035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/dabezukipivekajigetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a8177741d---gilezepotimemasoxezomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/16517379270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448888c6810d1b69f5e64f468ccde5fc/fudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6995506b4---97938470868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/56928468865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb567c3efa---riwujoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/nukejikikijizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc12515gaug35flndfrrka31m3/64387945999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116810f8b762---numijawavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minisadik-margaritka.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sususaxagomuwusexigid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokoseganikeragen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93241dc72c580f8a2d60c9dca7086a8e/52349009220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8632399fa112bbf068f43a1a051f0f2d/6637153541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/vupenisosunenazutanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/mazemuvizekovuvorilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/13108108482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210614081203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/99899145362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/gezuzidevutalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6e1b21f55---zojunalewotugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/15230934706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/zitiguzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62426480006.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_off0000b5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D4 10680 bytes
SHA-256: f12c9bb7b2ba2e7615fd3f1eb3888a765c3b057d5a83913f783fd24f1c8e13b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE3B 14124 bytes
SHA-256: 193a72dc2452c0068914f12e38a39e1e32a0ac5887abb796a53c47ff63be91c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1