Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00ae877191398a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

213.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 46a967997ee9fa7dd7105830314893cc SHA-1: 1f07875c3d882c493e6e021e5a7ab9c1df3dd55a SHA-256: 00ae877191398a781cc638a4ff4ff9250ba8a99b58032f1756be68689be284f9
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It employs social engineering by luring the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The document also contains embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

Heuristics 8

  • 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 lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • 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://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc1c92cfcd7cea924214adc0c53d67a/77776512077.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/79467691373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rgbvlh7qnnra4j6kts0n64pvj/bowizeximapejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/68639269089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/vipezegomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/mujojefatubaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0673654ace3ed6342cbb48c20452a6/41856643071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ui7epuivjbirec0fqnc18k96/verep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a3f60a939---tivitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/12381569396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/janubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a9064b3e7---vokuvapozefenagivodeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/kaveremobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/zumuvusariwenepolowapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4857e69ab9---kukavujisifetaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+acrobat+create+pdf+firefox+extension+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002d0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D0B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0002e8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2E8C2 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_02_sfnt_off0002fdf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2FDF8 10920 bytes
SHA-256: f013bd6ef4c4d4d62a411534769f8906cee3a8ac8f2f48805d86ed8b47af0a4d
font_03_sfnt_off00031738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31738 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 41d2e09c3132c551a54bbf494dfed039129d805afcf26de9f8e55c3f91aad029