Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c4ca62e574d6d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 75e1a3aa05c7273eb21a4265eddd5780 SHA-1: a9b918649d99e4d16429ec36cee3f53ba73709ab SHA-256: 1c4ca62e574d6d96bfd37fc5215cdb897b56de6851811e0c26a18d9cb12d197f
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to trick users into installing a fake browser update or extension. Multiple URLs were extracted, some pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607274f20e796---20208934473.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89344659555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munis-roquesalbes.cat/demo/vilalba/imatges/file/56763830683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/no80gpc8q5ivqq5sjplrod7ea8/41553726405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39760475306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixusatogakigarofalodari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/porativeweraloviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popeyebio.com/upload/files/90498267281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bfe7d2d56---6303788096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelutigamorexi.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents//files/9326289155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/49021616743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fbce14a56384ea9e4673b255ffd730/fevuwitoremin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/tikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210621_105551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b77cc2965---dedenaxapuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/88841396583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/97119259676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_5895A6B347E697D4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bfa331f94---32313510587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/24428694089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ghar+e+hira+main+aik+raat+pdfPDF 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_off0000e157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE157 19344 bytes
SHA-256: 5576c7043de2e10954c26acc2a7373e0fc48db013d544dd4a218ece9a668386a
font_01_sfnt_off000113ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C06 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 65af468d0a62a22cdc0447825de4b30103d92dc2b2de1c35b7d2d27805b33ca1