Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ac2bb7a4124cb1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 10:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 20f7da7bd2a2b933b6086adde27f0189 SHA-1: bd11e21dfa0ffc4be1940639305230207875ea6e SHA-256: 5ac2bb7a4124cb1c413e1f986803ffa89049ce7861bf24cd60216c63e795c62d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a social-engineering lure. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/68601368340.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/xatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdfee9rh7evjopltklfsa365l3/sofanala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850d3525bf4---mibikimusujuroxosetekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oerpoutbc64i48066fhmnco0im/79047510886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f76dcf23a8c7653e5701e8376cd056/16884362582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/49163613568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/3977649377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74551637127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/67412082792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc007c04e77ebaac7adcd6dd2b030a5/newavijaraxufezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3936587da5a9fb99bbce1c895dddaf/busujotozojerejazedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a165e740f---60135206730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f47b8bdcd4c487f745485645fec7a47d/74149828218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/femadubojotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/tugetegafuvexurovibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac92724f7fcf216c071654e34a016d2/78213676420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/14013368258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944274ddce9---42292096887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25024027282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0cfbe58aa---23466501929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c29fbf93e76687f6f52930c3e8533c/29321366951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6ba74e4f---65260617916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/bafapijuwiserepiguzusevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19387483428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=computer+style+lock+screenPDF 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_off0000f2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D2 10620 bytes
SHA-256: cb6b7b3444dd56912add6eed813e6bedd5bdb864f106e2f6b6850b4b51ced60e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B30 17592 bytes
SHA-256: c2e830c17808b543825ccffef5f33c4b74e70dae5f33e1704d8f7664427f643c
font_02_sfnt_off00013939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1