Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d600e4ee8997c21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 45b839df6aec42b40f9137cab6fcff26 SHA-1: 2a72cf70b215040e705205b067814341a6b49e7b SHA-256: 4d600e4ee8997c21b2b308528bd032f7bd1d72feaed4e3f4c3b59a09e10e1819
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically prompting the user to install a browser extension or update. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and file hosting services indicates a distribution mechanism for further payloads or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=steam+inventory+price PDF link annotation
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/31148552697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608546424e29c---25789394210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b482768d19---10153436278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885bf29b15c---95856336570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6d369dbdf017180b39e9bb59785b16/lasebokekefubesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/vuwutikugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63dbd16c76---wipebuwesuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/jijiberugitaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57a76671d25185f1d98e21523b7ec99/noboxugegutibalejosefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/pomakidebupakuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52abe0d56a55476974c452d378226c48/77573539923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e4c6bcc37cc19f76a20373b121aeee/zabujewiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/393456861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed66a1e9d7---newilo.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_off0000e7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E8 17716 bytes
SHA-256: fa344eedd8640c732ed095ab17cd5e5e74c0f2758d3cfc9787dca5f2f4123b43
font_01_sfnt_off000116c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED7 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 1b1514e0a528911404d85756da8143b18096c1d4eb7ef4c5f8b375609d2fcea6