Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b43857a00ad2773…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8266316e91fcc3fda99d09d4526881de SHA-1: 9c9e04144af287df31099b315bb44c2273d08275 SHA-256: 5b43857a00ad2773b328246c7e960f13ef78ffad2cb5fe9745fa5ca2ad3ce0d4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into installing a browser extension or update. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, likely serve as part of this social engineering tactic to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=livestock+health+management+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/ginarigakopigibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/juxomalinavuzedusov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b8ac5da30f6176aa15c646a67f975c/4718137281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ce5ee306a---58575240617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/6025765308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6u0jlr27q9fi1hs30k5k8fog67/13966947582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081145c41395---24960183254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836bead1900---zidexivakumesubuwibenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40ce38582---betefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/todikijunovupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33291708bc---futozokezefinilasaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44420865c2---84208824400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/54567627861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/51495661370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/47508421846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ddba7d780e8af9077056c5af68ae55/jogeladifamikijovobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca808690a3---xotaparuzopupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/367d21e450c214ab4aefd7a7cbd92f58/52599527206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210704235827_dn52z2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff5dc5b14b---59929217102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/dijebenuninisinimuvisudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11307906544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkettes.org/clients/b/b3/b30d687fb0e6fb0c44210170e51784d9/File/3060098124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peko2i1qvuqk78mjudpkb7s2lj/16531375383.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_off0000dece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 11084 bytes
SHA-256: ce015d8704b84043cb79b2d308434d9f159f7e11d6d93158e691eda802035668
font_02_sfnt_off00011066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11066 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 082e2176ecc164a8d11d134f006769fe027a2979c3aec0338e1a92d63bea8f9a

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