Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 651d0614fd45b7df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 08:36:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8179225eab58f8a03a937cbc22e2fa07 SHA-1: d9107f0a08751a32ba238620b670600ec96ebc21 SHA-256: 651d0614fd45b7dfe8456a3e41aefab22635404ba889d2d47908773e2d6893d0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. Several URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution infrastructure for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://trickorsuite.com/clients/5/5d/5d84d12f6f4dfd10bbe5497c884a5f3e/File/tijanarivogalepogunivaxij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f4259437---25576344921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47290796993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f453fa15756---pagovodoxakanubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/89371512260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea78799e737c444ed1d92f35e45702a/95598284418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menamuwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd8cfe3d271---48420777764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fc220b670---xuriwatiguzuremek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/20676100893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/jofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jraf8g0j4nfvdn1ctdkcbhdh41/puxirozefudewulalage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdfd0cd375---lavajobevewexigolozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/76582024717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/fatotimilofeganunura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa769d1c0b457b3655ed7a93e56e5baa/84580231479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/fatifenitavelobaduletux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/39225380581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e94fe2ae0---gezanugokezolopelafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/zolisitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/tazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc7s7rtqa46340j3g5n4kn4tvv/nomenamolakurexifugifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/furexubuxevuroreta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099eb1aa8b6a---37101109082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021630231104446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sk39lmrpor1mgshl7a20ri1i26/sakilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=factory+reset+motorola+ce0168+tabletPDF 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_off000104d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D7 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 778ce28aff5b182750cdccec97ca162280e3ea57aa7bf31159a2697144c3dd44
font_01_sfnt_off00011e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E78 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 21090944386ed4cb62770d853470193e8c5ca1cbb0822f4689a6f79920b15bb4
font_02_sfnt_off00014ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1