Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd08872cdf740dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9e8935474506b99f75e194648fbaede9 SHA-1: 30b7a513b3f7938e23def4c64b56ce90fb35112b SHA-256: 2dd08872cdf740dd4cafc90a930d4e33bd5603b7cc9595cb6c4139de73f6b935
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, presenting a lure to install a browser extension or update to view content. This is a common method for credential theft or malware installation. The presence of multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggests a distribution network for malicious payloads. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+a+website+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/60105269470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/89826663720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnologycenter.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/vowafanezalegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdb4905971---zigilopafojix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/vusobuxatotebavinugapuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/44039083602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6405156973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.poliklinika-hb.cz/userfiles/file/4280961817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109061114504932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/5313618718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/kuwigimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/40681400426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/zokowapune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99319203895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haihengpharm.com/upload/files/53546622155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613829b881eba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/34372928439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92373190323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c51660a27---93550928221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/959769a9210ec84718eecc99e20d7685/takavijebeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/lovizatewijozizoparijipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/70545487200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/xupova.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_off0000d618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD618 17200 bytes
SHA-256: c28dd0bb457694fc9a3aeb99fe12674e3a07d212bb34c211b7cfbdd46ec7b1f2
font_01_sfnt_off000102c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADA 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 55387605b76d55e068e219461ef29c950d883b3280f2ffde65aeb5d7e24e350c