Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2667a1f6f59a2e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2e2435fa13cd558205860b05703abf5c SHA-1: e7e0ec9b5ececefe8ab25f68a35d38e255e242d6 SHA-256: 2667a1f6f59a2e4ebe8ae47bdc4d5b5955eeaf97a8b025a095796206e74a04bb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. Numerous URLs are present, many pointing to PDF files hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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=small+seo+tools+keyword+planner PDF link annotation
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewilojudefenorepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/lomamafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/sitafaxeboxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/movix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/nedarelevizivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurezosakegusijiweteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nistd.in/userfiles/file/pibarigiliwakuxeripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/56564004280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/xugivobukonosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patoman.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78295008816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/85738925011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/penemujogoditomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a26e8b083---36723121987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prakashirrigation.com/uploads/fck/files/burupafumizufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19134537576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbanerjeeservices.4digitmagic.com/userfiles/file/gijomilovomijanewekunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/patepejupewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/zemiwipamofepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/rovidagabedebejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/16945066784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/zovunazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408be8d03fd---lodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9993049f2dbf3c81e673e6ccf4c4ef63/naxisopugexamumoterev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d1ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EF 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 9705eb286ecf68f0b478693cdfc9ba809cd7e26907c75ac195c850d1e299f7cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000eafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFA 17772 bytes
SHA-256: c4b4d351388e0bb87a25e02b51981bd6eb3a4dde7d8cfff78ce41ef09b23612f
font_02_sfnt_off000118af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1