Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc18b38cb209f618…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0584add9b10dc1c1d634c6a9a8739014 SHA-1: fe77341b8d5a1a2fcee89852547b14f68130d411 SHA-256: fc18b38cb209f618b0c2eba34f8f71e4a5207e38c1b85a8e9879349004e08c85
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a malicious site or payload download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 2 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://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/86276390734.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/luzofakowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/nonefijarosemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/ruwuwukebobumirujoxorazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///64740915210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/juboneloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa3993bb4b---5275323508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poker-fire.de/file/kamovadogalukaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/96178826734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19214649912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramamall.bg/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26805885224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/nuwenuwexuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366284c39b6---nesivimulesenosodaburidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.eu/userfiles/file/99136609707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72468599047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3f46b92b6---gaxefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/vonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/kewadigazotepabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/97863368979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/19967722745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202109/file/210905021147908416sexhpozvyv0g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/zidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=geronimo+stilton+kingdom+of+fantasy+book+1+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_off0000ae2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE2C 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 792e88ab26e2910e017dff9befae76b334a32ba72ed3cf977cf9a7ba8b83d4cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000c84f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE061 14324 bytes
SHA-256: 3e62512c03665028a0f7a65b17943d5b96c61266e1aa3b39cb5359970ae955d2