Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5edcd77cd45e8f5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 02fddb8f75b88893226326b15e7626b5 SHA-1: bb94e9a9fbd8327b6fd359e9fe80f0711e20051d SHA-256: 5edcd77cd45e8f5d9f7b0ad1791fbb980b4aac21fd4aa66902edcaf1e57cce37
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading malicious content by posing as a necessary browser update or extension. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, point to a link farm hosted on potentially compromised CMS sites, further supporting the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0ed2e9d4f501be6d1394d7baa1405a/75753707174.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c57ed2a35---dezuroziboxew.pdf
    • http://patroha.hu/file/sebuxivadepisumop.pdf
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/90999224786.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0c36bb2b3---65635268303.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0d19ca2940d1b3f5a95c1d826594ce1/25920045934.pdf
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/gabekuvagiwogazi.pdf
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/39304114546.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad76f026aa9b3f5e8d2a29ba1bca93d/kogatatumid.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a948b191c65---69151174398.pdf
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f39e319e23c218ed5c7bbb99f3a18df/sidoninivodadoxo.pdf
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/83895542413.pdf
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/29642406651.pdf
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/19631434791.pdf
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/75222162901.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6bb2f9323a---kexirabiv.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a8d956f72c5a8ccc86c9e131f9dc38/95413142281.pdf
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b0ee72dfa---5449148335.pdf
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/85767993707.pdf
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/33991889152.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f5ef5bf68---3645386084.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608856d665a20---50831664674.pdf
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/gonixalevifezowuvudiz.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e82f14fb---62918353559.pdf
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/fatemosukejavewufiwedex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=full+html+and+css+tutorial
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a39.bin
45c3f17f80903a91c4a2a399a925a61f066c9839683eeae2aac5a3304df23981
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A39 18376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015a40.bin
6cb57059feeee823f7b7d98077e8b689ea3af2713eb30231c50a17d6a1df5383
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A40 10580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001721f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1721F 16792 bytes