Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ede6650ecc425c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 21:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d9e5a4ab8a9cc660d27af2956890d547 SHA-1: 49254d593c0c81f3ebbddfebd71ef7f8141d3140 SHA-256: 1ede6650ecc425c8fdb57d67c05e9eef4ad1468d29af97c1000a8f91b0d883ae
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view its content. This is a common tactic to facilitate malware installation or credential theft. The document also contains numerous links to external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+chrome+from+blocking+websites
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/74492345948.pdf
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/robadevutinatovara.pdf
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84142692885.pdf
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/27965325733.pdf
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75750773282.pdf
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/ripojoz.pdf
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/finole.pdf
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/89888236150.pdf
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapurulivudavisusasor.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614076f17126d---10182712511.pdf
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/35887534440.pdf
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409d2878b18---19410323329.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970c1b8cf6f34a17f2dfe2a7c57a3898/woxizuxewomebujok.pdf
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/26133989749.pdf
    • http://goldenmallbiotech.com/upload/files/pofikujipe.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/66806788865.pdf
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090321512133.pdf
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16510044502.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9763e73e3---12742414176.pdf
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/litumuv.pdf
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/43747663110.pdf
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/48340016513.pdf
    • http://ayrh.internet-match.com/upload/files/pixole.pdf
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/56822027519.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d885.bin
276ad0fd0f497eec0628971498073b67de8087282670af229e3e97c3bdbf7dda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD885 17756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010699.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10699 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb0.bin
54fedaa63c375ee96fa4673cfc50db195d602b4a183202bdc7d2db0ff0eebefc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB0 11076 bytes