Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 440797df2502fca3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.7 KB Created: 2021-10-13 23:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2c921424657e3c98dab9879af31b182f SHA-1: 25adbb7b9441f1d9aad3dc46b41076cee61b6a36 SHA-256: 440797df2502fca372bba977236cb0781614a56e3bf58f84d9195579a9140fb4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests the document attempts to trick the user into installing malicious software by pretending to be a required update or extension. The embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, likely serve as part of this lure or as download locations for secondary payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/23495793191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/widovakufiwemusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/85960307689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/bixezuvokamotizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77248996954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148e4e956470---migusezarubunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a444b78e4---49786269167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/zelofolosidukafisiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/wiwomokagebowoxelivoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-habitant.com/images/blog/file/93181763489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/koxixafefiwezifozixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d2cd5496f---21246417384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/80195592156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/jovepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210929173326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/sofebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/xisaruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xulynuocphangiathinh.vn/images/pic/file/88657727475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/zunobavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshnaai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61366363288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12015900456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tivikemukifozevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202109192115079033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafuguxawixejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=update+to+windows+10+from+windows+8.1+freePDF 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_off0001a6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A6C4 19992 bytes
SHA-256: 254ad083f5235bc6a7d681e2b25cf2f7af04e6b0e98196aa7b23412d3fbf9160
font_01_sfnt_off0001da15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA15 11156 bytes
SHA-256: b6ef2714e41731681aeabd2a806e1b3697637245bc455eed2b64b327d6ed4101
font_02_sfnt_off0001f44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F44A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1