Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 160db6e5961a1140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f2961c49e73d28e548eef4f18082526d SHA-1: 5ed800ad1f209602d84439a26b23e969bf88798f SHA-256: 160db6e5961a1140cf47ad506998479d4ac3926d55d5fdd99eb555b1a98a7a8a
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely contains a social-engineering prompt to install a browser extension or update. The numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the lure and the detection suggests it may leverage embedded JavaScript or exploit a PDF vulnerability to achieve its malicious objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+jpg+size+to+100kb PDF link annotation
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c2867cd7b---30163666336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/602629102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37edf9231b69ea79e654dc5c547f51f/12728289050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/33427451856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e596c9bfe5---saniluwopagafuribaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/tetekemijugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdqlt00j9tp33sarkasm39r026/27251090662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/53772309775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/51883904101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dbis5m38ud5huisg42l8quim1/55909742513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f988b026b8be26de5eb3f621be0668d2/wopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608432b781f45---nerewulobitekawajomesira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/vebabuxagofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087db3558fef---pukaludafodozebevukifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e75b4edec0---71239629109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58a57099a5---34666832837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd4529c8270f1cc6d8e88c6f93f522b/68417810494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f756b63794---fuvovanakiwopupimoguxapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/wagupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/89743610132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1tn7rd216mg1rkk99amdk5le5/fanumiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d353dd4149021f5dae40bb3b8793d39c/61867200426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/93629157541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/dijagozofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62mn8kqva7frm6kupc9amroru/toxegiberodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607582027ad8b---sinipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CD 17024 bytes
SHA-256: ebdbd283b75822dc15778656745199e1195d3df088e4fe2638a92382b6cfa502
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11544 11156 bytes
SHA-256: d113c1fffaeb076177efd9741b9f95f9b4d6710ba84baa2d23e4986fe49a60bf