Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d17af06edce073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e20a3a384e2507de412c7eefb7107bf SHA-1: b4642856f6df7da02d8dde8b4b2220091855ed32 SHA-256: 55d17af06edce0737b8e721b4f6a7511db8f51fdec5829ead88b8c2466cd2974
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically impersonating cloud file-sharing services and instructing the user to install a browser extension or update. This social engineering tactic is commonly used to trick users into downloading malware or divulging credentials. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised websites and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/39886630904.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2619dca198879bd567e194ff4e8f58dc/fetipifonokisifegafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14839443708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96537197931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/72905076719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/tofeditizirape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/towogifixufowebibisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1703427ce0e452a7afe45a1564e3102e/20011176763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/bosidatenifunopizudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc38ccb1f6---kugidozifukudakigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210701163108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///75050473571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c64b78277c15a9ddd2b88579a3f7a4/94101151601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/vijigujaxadinosumivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/wotifovikogumuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/vodumovatasufaroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021070118035225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36150386985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/21693484786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/davizububobivixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ac9f66b3156fee72501120b609c1d6/8745661162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1802ea8ad54109cbdecc225fe1dfa280/87904236864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourcampuswindow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodupasulidasaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612444e5f1bea---39645064051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=software+to+read+pdf+aloudPDF 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_off0000f415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF415 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 866b0af98398b1e8e99d06dbe8369c59916a065657f75ab66b5eb80624bc42c9
font_01_sfnt_off00012608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12608 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E1F 10388 bytes
SHA-256: c326705a752f6f324d7cd4988ec6241b5d08f669947b6e1d19376255fead5a58