Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ff091df712f4577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f85e22f05e88742d93f25948831a5a2e SHA-1: 8ecdbf830802e979bc02b50b51fffed30bb67893 SHA-256: 4ff091df712f457751b582fdfba9aabda6d2dba2c17e2538aed7bebc97f7492c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into installing a fake browser update or extension. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, coupled with the lure, points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document's structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing attack aiming to compromise user credentials or deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/gujelekitetulobupatifosa.pdf
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/kidomesowodidinokus.pdf
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/5901874772.pdf
    • http://konyanincigkoftecisi.com/userfiles/file/47433589021.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f07b337a8f7d707dd9f5c7aefee725/36688771489.pdf
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawikus.pdf
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/87760604084.pdf
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/66356279331.pdf
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/99227460247.pdf
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/kulosi.pdf
    • https://munis-roquesalbes.cat/demo/vilalba/imatges/file/62928233602.pdf
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/wujemodijabamimagodanofo.pdf
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pinunupew.pdf
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/59058034796.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64714dc9f249ba7d269197e3c3e4393d/81586165706.pdf
    • https://protraderin.com/userfiles/file/rodonubogokujonalejenobum.pdf
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/modenamadobineravazaw.pdf
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/37275445782.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfaca0cc16---2738120661.pdf
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30379805311.pdf
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/zafaf.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613081ba74739---22478848949.pdf
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81275339781.pdf
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/musawo.pdf
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/72942776379.pdf
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/28241891705.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mr+wrong+episode+6+english+subtitles+full+episode
    • 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_off0000f691.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF691 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea8.bin
924e7386157d102256491f5e984b9f67434b5c5e736c3e0b945835480c6b06e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA8 11104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001281c.bin
1a00fbff1552770b3e933f4d7c06e4fc4c1ce9a291dc0b3ca70a5730695c25e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281C 22304 bytes