Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 115581d0bedf194c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f75b2d10489a9085e06a8e23669da5bd SHA-1: fea9bd3dd37acdcab85b8f525df1a53c686c725b SHA-256: 115581d0bedf194c93f260c3ac8bad6ebbac69e470947960c16693508db29663
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a distribution infrastructure for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a7da6c89a---23659421806.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e3bac8ce---20047569393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uglggopioga1lv7leig8agmkuf/88423432891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/29048065548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6dd751e8fc4b37acb9d4455a256e30/65249762154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a90fd3412baf7f7400d4f44abe06bd/finizejekadakoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/jezuvotefipukojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/17459245452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a7cd7f965---97328954281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944b4e5e301---zijajatomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25189023868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nm37evbjjiul3rk7docbdtkd3/28899610027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766765151ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/jalafemaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751be4a0a04---85354602594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd84ee2f820---junab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caa4eaccc7---86467812655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/66204816633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-11/20210611205529710953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074766ca44c2---58282575857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c596a9e8bf7---85165654139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61cd2c37d21f2653000f8d14a32e3a61/64153451417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/jufemekunozelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/fijawajuvixevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dia+full+movie+download+with+english+subtitles+tamilrockersPDF 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_off0000f28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28B 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 3ec47134eca5bd31fcaa432d4448d35d6aeb2dae18e38b56753f2e81d5f48447
font_01_sfnt_off00010d1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1C 16848 bytes
SHA-256: cb4e01b7fa1d0fc7ffd069e9eb87503a506456c5cf53d94c4b6758a19847747b
font_02_sfnt_off00013918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1