Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9dabbe81963050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7c832f0c52f597211824f1b3e09723fa SHA-1: a7fbe0b9a78ecbc6833d9cee7dfd78a258154ed2 SHA-256: 1a9dabbe819630506c7c81c2fbf3ed82c16496fabb3f80e5c38b2ad2ada2c324
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery mechanism. The document employs a social engineering tactic by luring the user to install a browser update or extension, a common method to facilitate further malicious activity. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, possibly to download second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/miziruwesazoni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/16221988422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f5af7409aeaea76c564f82cf7527265/lufotemapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/xenojorepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/fisutakazanefaxabekewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fe6ce32305ce77bd8d91252f920513/dubarewamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/130704424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/pumafokazise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/97962805066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/gaximumogage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzunitoxomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31295484550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/xiferoposamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newkontakt.ru/userfiles/images/file/xuveravokexitinepaxafasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likapefesazupogipegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/puvuzovamatugosamemozowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/luwikixatiduzozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c972eb9eeb---kujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovidivurunugulifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcfg5vn9pud54nouk161h7muuc/68488251297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b161336bb97273f92eec6bd547ce8d/50616633279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewajimemudupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dellrein.ru/content/file/zidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/sofipisarifimaxusizevaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h96mqsk8sqkp9mur93qsekkc4/fajeletogasure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=messenger+update+new+versionPDF 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_off0000e574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE574 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 8b93fa89d036f712d41f5ca5365df05eafe6ccfd134a88db6a8683bbeb5326e0
font_01_sfnt_off00011250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11250 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 6109b6b6dd8175637ed2e15cd1ecdde2b66fdd54c0fd7fb361c6d6f17b8c8f41
font_02_sfnt_off00012b14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1