Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cc1a3ff7cf238d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-05-12 19:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2dbd4115338b2aaedd9e71ce95c5944 SHA-1: 437b82e62a711d17fa9f94cd2ec356939d6ec9cc SHA-256: 4cc1a3ff7cf238d413ebbd2cbb4429412ebed6276a2177974a1f3e827d5afaed
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document employs a social engineering tactic by luring the user to install a browser extension or update, a common method for credential theft or malware delivery. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=software+reporter+tool+uninstall
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c01d8dd9f---miwetotu.pdf
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/xesawob.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff2e137dc---67839271644.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b2d35231---32603679452.pdf
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdee2a3b3970ceb73edbba1348acd057/xojosomixom.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3e0c97300---75111288285.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a6ffea982---38176345554.pdf
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/pomozip.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c28ad079c3461a21246a33d29d911e3f/vozakezibo.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1a3a90d229cebf4cfd92f8a6f7d8ea/xukonuxuvedewemare.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607992969dfe7---lapamisor.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j7n06arnn0dqmv38gvgn5iliu/limitimilovibawibexoted.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705c0ad70f8---kexatulelosuna.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgvk774jt1vime21i7d3ule74r/zaxegolibavalitosiv.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401881e488---26283575387.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d88ce2bc1830619d961506824ab6203c/31859430688.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6odpjihpnko2vmpraso5396u8/beguzegutepukex.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC95 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee06.bin
dcdbc23a4ec22808fbb9e6b9b1f6d4566afc48e25edfbc275ed7c78890a92da9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE06 10092 bytes