Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19067fff37b8788a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1c2d737173a958a105e40ffa4a094a2 SHA-1: 068dd43383b771699f410dbb72067795627d207d SHA-256: 19067fff37b8788ab4351009ca2a263d6a570eb66378c1b6110b8239c4089914
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that employs a social-engineering tactic to trick users into installing a browser extension or update. This is a common method for delivering malware or stealing credentials. The document contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210517061231_1178809356.pdf
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/xesikaligufanepewin.pdf
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210530011255.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b844e9c3f28---23425892937.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acebd7620ca---vimozojivugotujulidaw.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bfc7af82cf77613a531a4f2487d8f1/99532713424.pdf
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/37475038788.pdf
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///68904399416.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e6fcd90ab---28765537889.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca7147d2a7---83263777418.pdf
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/xunejixegomededox.pdf
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/68935351587.pdf
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wilavademarusitopuzala.pdf
    • http://cokhisah.com/webroot/img/files/97623772337.pdf
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2ab86b074da69802897826c0470274/56773811649.pdf
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/62452987940.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce78b1b6859---reroxunoj.pdf
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/13123722723.pdf
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/rudawuronokewupinesipu.pdf
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/39306379844.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08de5201c1---radumoxaza.pdf
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ltbi068bjtoajlceiba0oght5/73961641458.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ld+player+updated+version
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/475b82ae8a1f5b685f5617d3c9ebf75d/fexubofesupakeforazaru.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015e5d.bin
00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E5D 16140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000173d5.bin
1cee4ceb08cc1f73326f9ace5d8c965c8eee687f43ac848cc061d44a2d514d0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173D5 17656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a251.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A251 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001ba68.bin
f174eb7a24a2ab21becca80fefa942e445c3d7b3e0b27d1625093071fae8cbaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA68 10620 bytes