Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6125b3e8a7ea7d20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fd27c5366080ec5e04effc57683c1604 SHA-1: 70aac68327723a96509da043aecf27ad279ffc36 SHA-256: 6125b3e8a7ea7d206714a9b1c32cfe8e2c0e271e99c782a9d3c9c76d9f76a2e1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into installing malicious software or providing credentials. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 http://hotechike.com/files/files/31671721299.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/10981395378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/gejolubeluvupito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15261070392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7551b3371fcea3a9b84db59cdb0732ea/voxelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s15u22spp0caseadgnm6dunl2/tevevekekalujelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/fubigolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fukewoxuwesupaluzawanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/vebomewiresaforenatomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/vazetelakogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/sewisemajugariwudatope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/17056895478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20210902082903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents/files/pivumotobijeripesodituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133823155d66---pirajugepofapagibovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/munasisokegalerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/pedavawawaderexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funifejutironazoloriwejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905181000203408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/64230397061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/83228940253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/76412055315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/jitolidanedabelipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80204766844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/wudanilegebezalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/51129668735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/siwapabanigetikulepatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+game+data+from+iphone+to+androidPDF 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_off00010218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10218 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2F 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 6d203e03c8a66d188a0c40b4daf9b9ff2d7bf3265fb07bc3806f0fe625ca3e3e
font_02_sfnt_off000132d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D8 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 72696f22fe82c56e7dada72a24494c4c250542fe910e959e8380f2fa509ef3be