Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e44616ce989a792…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:38:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 71f015122df4a5511823a9c21967e0aa SHA-1: 6b7a59d16f2671646e2344a840d0680b0763e1d5 SHA-256: 1e44616ce989a79297deba760a58699b4a02d7802fa0d2850e67133912cae101
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing software, a common social-engineering tactic. The numerous extracted URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggest a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/powativowuvip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7e584cd31---fozuvinirutulijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23026416097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/15868744783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45357958349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datesatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f84ef1a2c---84509446648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/3297328206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da8e755d30---69147926429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/fitemibobipinapokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa9d1af7474da07f835c290b08e63e8/salexobubakenosofexebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/tutodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c903e7e00b---59951513319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80515240546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e8081937141cda420835192663662c/7704664337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1448e14957b97a79321997ab5434ae72/93718545392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b950e717f1d---fuluwodizisugagoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607562dde5584---62037024977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a0c61e0ce---55278063720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/dajelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c966ab5ca5---58841198531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmtr2rf8nc5scn65glkiq7d218/fabofuvovovuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/17129403536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+read+aloud+chromePDF 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_off0000bc39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD450 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2741688ef0b33425fc5c9b0d846ea3d8117c5b981ff9195ea6de5f151df669
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC2 17024 bytes
SHA-256: e44cca7eac40526bdc100083bb502003cc862135689b6bf9936e1ead99d70fb7