Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ceb90624b914916…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6f53bc8b6226bd53a1899eef1ab04cb1 SHA-1: 67f559a577ed502674779913e90e8c59f9c4e19e SHA-256: 0ceb90624b914916983a46aca006f7e5d805f8b7711a9b13b1b26620345855b4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicates a likely attempt to host and distribute further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/13881683106.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861b1a5860c---zejatufepuvusoguxivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f606d5c28510ec2fa762f64f2bde69a/27164853996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/20555092419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56jprdprchj1eg25mbnrts9gmm/57887758611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h3o84fdqg89frrkhcscugfj6g/wupidovapujamefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/gumulisifalogewejejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddb174320f---kabebafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/36933705769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/42737569702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/zozukibodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/11157339657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/41224661130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc13b836be---29838092912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ci7bhklcsr90c013k71vmcg2/33960366109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/nojoneputavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08nm7lf4v04suqtaj8ps4rnip/dapuwuwoxubuzopotepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808ed26c57b---48896078603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d1520e661e87c1cd7f6b3f53129a58/viwejimovefagitidajezuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d712be1602---34127795317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607034c1a0879---69297139256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/tamuvovivunikokudolazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc228e8b37---42273786807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/36861223458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3ogoa3rkolbblc0lvafulptd9/8361422360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=blood+diamond+full+movie+online+with+english+subtitlesPDF 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_off0000e961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE961 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 9c36f1d6beb0c316fd3f9037dfb8182637943c23a22f475e1a657b0fb9059d5e
font_01_sfnt_off00011359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11359 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B70 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 2eb2111b1ab9ebe7d63db36e8c8235e154d40ca643f4c32b940a93a81f2dd68a