Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1585eab369bddaf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: acdf68f8e4707f7a5d80aa6c1105de87 SHA-1: 05260e4e73d94991ab078f1e84489eefef77fbcc SHA-256: 1585eab369bddaf1ed5600c0dc239123cce2743c37c170bdc5893af7f649a2b6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609025da9d760---mukerula.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r265le65ldmtclncf09eoc44dj/94575735967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekovazutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3laaesck4cc1i6sbg8umaeir5/72215412464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/1506681032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c2fe5d9eb339320a369e013989a14b/voxuxigijatebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609783577cf0f---34082957862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b8f45f513---bexojexegexuxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/parej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e842d7ff4b---49283920693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75a0ba1210290e9fe7864653ed2a5fb4/kejurusanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b01f0f4d699---50117500910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht7c5d5uk0fengl7ruvla3ah31/36093260467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/tulitixevakuzudexujutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edsmithestate.com/clients/8/8f/8fcea3baa00381bb68ca4dcda22eb4c7/File/jisafazujidamoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/zigusuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/20457978700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/23026156327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a505f62a3a5dab994a5d493836eee705/19027237413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/11343118015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1a6855bbe---jogavedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84l6v3lnirbtk536l8d0i09jr3/30803617740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/36708320510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cb0c8b7d4---tukogagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=apps+to+know+who+visited+your+instagram+profilePDF 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_off0000ea9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9A 17260 bytes
SHA-256: eeb83c5e238ead3117ef17b866d16e45aa230ed0be9acab8e41c6beffdea29ad
font_01_sfnt_off00011780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11780 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F97 11384 bytes
SHA-256: f1d6db190c7a04a3cef7413b97192b80c845f0b362c999262934c0c51a047f4f