Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc7b489269bc50e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 19:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf9eef9a6f848f1aeea22f911007c967 SHA-1: 9664b34615d3de2797a2b01629d154f3ec6e1c41 SHA-256: fc7b489269bc50e3b64473c3d5af73ea97a41557562efb99e72a85fe85637fec
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. Several heuristics indicate it's a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to a phishing site or a download of further malicious content.

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 http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/74257767755.pdf
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/tesokafupone.pdf
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/36433060280.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb0e954269---52051533307.pdf
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/bagabosomajoban.pdf
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajuwatamagonut.pdf
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/31720315862.pdf
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137adfcaedb4---juruzojotejajakezuxefub.pdf
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/dikepafibineladopoxedo.pdf
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/merogapiguwaxegakekoj.pdf
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/wimoj.pdf
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/82154655938.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/xexejakubisun.pdf
    • https://chambres-lannion.fr/userfiles/file/95612834440.pdf
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/85566195156.pdf
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/29317669124.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613548ce1191e---59233642014.pdf
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/zokesurebewuwidazukugi.pdf
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42116125986.pdf
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/84870019051.pdf
    • http://yarpb.ru/pic/userfile/52635747797.pdf
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/396439133.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334eeb97df8---75161081057.pdf
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210912123607.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=carbon+and+its+compounds+class+10+full+chapter+notes+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b340.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB340 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb52.bin
a11f6c6ed6a93b5ef667a68181c4933d05043a3f4b0b2446ec8aee1cfb919bc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB52 13988 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbd.bin
f0ff23057d3c3a674a6f5957e681d7c3143b76f3f3ab01d4567ea46cc1a777e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBD 11332 bytes