Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 593fd87a84418481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9df84bb2f9cd3e2f9d5b1b38a79f3a7a SHA-1: bdf0b646905b6440b09771f53ce54f50a2639694 SHA-256: 593fd87a84418481d9b036266fe0cd11ae429d7f3cc77888a98099f3c7776ab9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure designed to trick users into installing a browser extension or update. It leverages compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting for its distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URLs and the 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a social engineering attack aimed at credential theft or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=set+dark+mode+chrome PDF link annotation
    • https://dd-inside.de/userfile/file/In PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/wobegikesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/miviregemubatuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613358bd389ce---40153287486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/bawofapewugowukisefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/41507312649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c697c0d81---92382891577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/fifuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78985576374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9563df14f---57632505751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac86ca75e7---61209101229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/69174633532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bf9d96be2---xulalerimovepeputufajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/vowuzumavemulurosodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613387b710d17---divadejejeranekutot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/63115226442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/20187068020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/85169392731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/91795844203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/33853087602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/romomofezuwididorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/33291236728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/miwovogelisazejamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/ponigerevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxizurexupotekukasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/besofimeredisimi.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_off0000ef7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7F 10392 bytes
SHA-256: d56e3b81a12bd04c67bf890d624ae4c4cd896c37b33cd55ae11aba0896184c86
font_01_sfnt_off0001070f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F21 17744 bytes
SHA-256: ac91e97bfb504ace9d4680e3540c35811f91e464b3c7775d6f37947faefc74b6