Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 680def9dd7db74ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:05:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4f6a8e4337ac485fef7575fcf3670187 SHA-1: 6b7c25345fa365349524f346d7580454c0fc5143 SHA-256: 680def9dd7db74ef817b3f4c8cc123eba677eff25acd4bc616506696136f771a
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into installing a fake browser extension or update. Embedded JavaScript streams are present, likely used to facilitate this social engineering attack and potentially download further payloads. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://it-hair.com/userfiles/dugukubejawofanolesi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137294b8bb98---mumafosezatimewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/bomamoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/89079208195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/bujivuvinepodikajetopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npk-bypassdrr2.com/file_media/file_image/file/32548030496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565ec5c570f7b20a22bf3bb3bbf0b143/fakusigopulemoboxodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6dvu3501jg3ctfahk7331mdr7/32453820132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/59643913946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/logawikowexosisikanoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/masakumibimugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/ravodogamowuvimidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/zolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/degujexojaberuvodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazusokolanukomogaperuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2sgmek35bi5fohjv0cbm4nnu5/89550617220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/4078432758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/85700020752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathrainbow.com/userfiles/file/61028198600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/80357788987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sincaremedicaltour.com/js/upload/jebevorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/99720828659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5533da856---3344381646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/9646017520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=x509+tools+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_off0000d7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F1 16960 bytes
SHA-256: eb7becb915eef60169237e676d374ad89bdb3024ec03171760ad38ddb088db85
font_01_sfnt_off000103f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F0 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 815f0db4e9653ee4b2e76771563272e64beb3c01dfbc4f251388bc634c678edf
font_02_sfnt_off00011c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1