Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53a83c1f121e5ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-02 03:54:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d14678b8db9ddb461f460ebcd53ff969 SHA-1: 2c878c0e974a19482c6611b79f14e5be6ede36a9 SHA-256: 53a83c1f121e5ba67541ba7e6e00efeaef320452d45bf0d61f496a4f0d97bd80
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample was identified as malicious by a ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document is designed to trick users into installing software, a common social engineering tactic. Multiple URLs were extracted, some pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/dotogomasajokeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/zifojume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96481961934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/wubajurotasisozanozeluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadabinhphuoc.com/upload/ck/files/toxogokarugezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/12453579113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072af160426c---23523794467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lalifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/53441805284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/9639373606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/4121124038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e4b485ff8a0f76c0ff929ae268af51/63951252363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/jezuboxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/wokevazolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d000ccea245---dadokukamerobudoxivezarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbf9f87d35b819371da5fe473fc2933/23617216086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f62596887f9a71d5485d278bbbb70fc/jemimogoralebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/82197544946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/6143811577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ab9d26c97f3bbfc0dbc92496debef4/sujikadofufeguritotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/nivijotipafulopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e0457aaa---10737304642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095674ba6bcf---nimojetuwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+update+my+tomtom+xxl+maps+for+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_off0000e1bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BB 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac55fdee2755f3fdc02f4fe61cda099b0c193f86e18797404d76a7ee0ed8428
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB37 19196 bytes
SHA-256: 5a1e8fd91a7d12c1560ee46c941c0619180ec3a389b7a9b52962318e7d581bea
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1