Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 431501ce7c80dfbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 23:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a3828e43eaa97a764a8948d29762d06b SHA-1: a599ed5104efa8c2620fccdcc0c8d37221feddb8 SHA-256: 431501ce7c80dfbf1979f1108cd68656a7535dd9110e9f406b8fdf6fa6016bc9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it uses a browser extension/update installation lure, a common social engineering tactic. The document also contains numerous links to external resources, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://piecco.eu/upload/files/lalamagid.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9b493cae6---17180682676.pdf
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/91320815556.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37820f7d8057ae89e4a47ba387a2009f/numepavobetopatudij.pdf
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/bilavedutokepukude.pdf
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/3530938739.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7309bffeeed44b5eb3f109542c2307/98417713762.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05b9a7cbcb---30694922354.pdf
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/finiwomima.pdf
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/gafirimefazasobifevurid.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90ecd9c8082014cbdbd4852f3743364/33032555871.pdf
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/77300815377.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acffe59817---lewatameze.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e45e7ed47---bapeboxeroxofomefuj.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1e6e2a48e---jewize.pdf
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/40292237098.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gagezofesirisemixaxo.pdf
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/dozigike.pdf
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/88925809744.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ffaa8d828edbe547ea5bdd5ac2f841/jazinifepe.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/rifujupobepexones.pdf
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/padexumejikumomimarevofi.pdf
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/82072904507.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3570d9332---panagexiduvi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mozilla+firefox+latest+version+67+download+filehippo
    • 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_off0000f98b.bin
e65402ff12b94ccfb7e79d01b7af037fd90a024f0d7ee02cdd19845e5f9fa30c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98B 11120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011391.bin
79fa5664794d5dfcd287414e9fc9c4bbaad73907fa4e67e2efee8d5ee9063f45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11391 16716 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f03.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F03 16792 bytes