Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04b44b149e677e82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 320980175c47be7d6505b5b62d7e714e SHA-1: 489daf19ea67b8d7ab12d0f735c21cfc44b6a419 SHA-256: 04b44b149e677e821bb0ad1612fb20229bc8b5ad67f47caffd79ab627a96861a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing software, a common social engineering tactic. Several URLs were extracted, some pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • 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.
  • 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://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/24563395353.pdf
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/54638794967.pdf
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5499537698.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614196bacdd1d---dirapuz.pdf
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/sutowadaxalisul.pdf
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/ruxoxasixiwarulovum.pdf
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/dorerebezujalo.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305a12007809cfc0f3d9b1a623a63cfa/jaxijapasusagijefigise.pdf
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_C7D48EF38329F8D7.pdf
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/87557086001.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl7mav6vporomorsouuagmnmlq/rixofelogunasubuvatit.pdf
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/83887869254.pdf
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021090121336_967840915.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305a18a818b---vilasekofuzip.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145a430e8f0a---61787822070.pdf
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilirufibepimewebejubalu.pdf
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/77640600729.pdf
    • http://bacsiha.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patimejowobudububas.pdf
    • http://se-ty.com/uploads/userfiles/file/59941976600.pdf
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/6659862796146cf743836f.pdf
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubis.pdf
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/68438575046.pdf
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/74825738760.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sd+streamz+apk
    • 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_off0000efe4.bin
3e38ea3b9007cf5ce984d6ed3ff567e92497f64dd9bd6f8140d79b6af5242ecb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE4 18752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012112.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12112 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013929.bin
d0082be708d14c84cab4d4d9385e02e3c599fbfa63871c439560312c3cf03d9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13929 10416 bytes