Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb89b67cb257b4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a1908eba05cb2bfbc21c888f46796fd SHA-1: e0e10230f1aa890292d321acf160e1a8e77bb199 SHA-256: 1eb89b67cb257b4c7bc4acc96fc796eed917440ff411f665fea6d8155747f80d
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it contains a link farm hosted on potentially disposable domains and a lure to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lures and the detection suggest it is designed to exploit user trust to download and execute further malicious content, likely via JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/708056061.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/63506613190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/53035605027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozegunosobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/14535169738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8d172b1a9---mokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://321eastern-thailand.com/userfiles/files/63453827545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/mowanogagesile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/bemamiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f556844a5---39724984837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/5726770097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/vuwubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revaxonokuvemelusiguwipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/47671893551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138981276018---nezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/54011258361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c2869266a---63816161329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72300157596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210907061025072001lvmyym7g4ehc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/pisomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimura-shihoshoshi.com/userfiles/file/46609098924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/60389947923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawidelunafatuneripore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/27251086557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/99448450754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+obb+filePDF 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_off0000d956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD956 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 966144119330639b4f9180126f29bc299591d0ca564bf66907a3439eb821450e
font_01_sfnt_off000106ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AB 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 245f806d47e9164e087d2190c6c415426ebeb51d811b761a893984d92113638e
font_02_sfnt_off00011d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1