Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 052f8d6d1c5e95e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 02:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ef3c7a87bdc6dcec26428cf320904a15 SHA-1: b72f022e1b0fd11b40417893539127a645debc31 SHA-256: 052f8d6d1c5e95e30dace94cec8477af6ed7621cb5138b660b8f16cdf67a4bcd
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It employs a social engineering tactic by luring the user to install a browser extension or update, which is a common method for credential theft or malware delivery. The document also contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a larger phishing or malware distribution infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://tanasiri.com/piceditor/file/68241897115.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/36244479529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4eb26a532---nabufakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/ruxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a133a9dc767882b0e919ffb5b0dbf80/sarari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49ae0b4f5951bfb87427f90251d10d0/xotapatunonorabafaparuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/rotozolufelamifakidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305c269ba83115c4daece612990a3b4f/60004693067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1d4e07e850d904efc2610c6af0c9a3/73873583847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c87faada1---31080769042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/77720247157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/38980402889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukubegivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d499708fba---98135456264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0af9e87b4---vutufupoxududomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1nep45sjalkhoj10ouo0oc7c0/84934036735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9ksvkuahjfu5df38n74unirv/60788342433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/18377833432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/kisefomulosekawameko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/lujejejexesekevosulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd51e77b0a5cd41187d60145f65de4e/nawagijibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/paledakijilokitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/gevava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=who+viewed+my+instagram+profile+app+redditPDF 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_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 441a8db7f6f7c0844131fe92a22219b8e455a326556beae1d921a49bf147aeae
font_01_sfnt_off00011cad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C4 11204 bytes
SHA-256: ad63c6de5e4c36fb8f74b3390f7ae34f0befb0ad572c3afea05bae0429e93cb8