Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53579f8c7b178c35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 17:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: cbbeaa22089749cb8d5f986f84f8b01c SHA-1: ba61afa0b9dedb5c3b0c210df03337d0535daf0f SHA-256: 53579f8c7b178c35154034a9336165a0337aa6e150d08f25b8f263d87e593ab2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests the document is designed to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. The numerous extracted URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, likely serve as part of this lure or as download locations for subsequent payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb039ee9ba4---betegatapidid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/fanukofefupojodagijagomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a3fdc48dd6d4613e5b40d79ddd6e8d/nozovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/vagizeruxilivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b824e90eb35163590bf8eb90bc2500af/turevixolujuvupipadusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cce9d5455---65828022254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ebe6a6d3a4---tileviletulasumeleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-vv.dk/userfiles/file/84561272461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8aec3352395936c97399d89ec86f63/51844667946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085249255a9e---lapulejexaravudibefilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/70282137576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0774f69592c687580b8466991ef0b85/nogigasirugamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84e8f1b251---30641574857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/kakepubatadopomudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/dirawolosazigefasevemiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418d6d294e85a373ad24cc87d70bca79/dusilozugiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/61186657169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e283e81106---davugexusujukurolesuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th0vcl4ta7rh482lh9jibkc1d9/mipajevusaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxuwikarixanopalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5bb5d10e5---lajagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/bokemawosaluredefogowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+download+dls+2020PDF 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_off0000f295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF295 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 546372e1703157d6719e5842f7ef0efe7ea01714a9e71c666e79ca2ddb94d42d
font_01_sfnt_off00010a15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A15 17140 bytes
SHA-256: ae34eecb574c0756b7d538214536960bb7698440f0bede13be8a2c9172170a83
font_02_sfnt_off000136cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1