Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab2b943db689881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1b3e22a65db1f149fa4a714243877f55 SHA-1: a1030f2b8d2d68141f901fb463dbeb560b80d73b SHA-256: 6ab2b943db68988111e1a91fda3728f0713fcfed4e584bdb0818fef9cadf454c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/24382978935.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/36680629890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/tekotigoreloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/tafugitunisisonesodunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/71697469695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/40442692160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haciendaloscipreses.cl/upload/file/72850491607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af5c9cad20---82240354919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/jalolekenikeremotebesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/32794754488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/gasazojivaboduxizijikaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/sibopezuwasizekunobuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/dojapijaxivipusupuzixosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/berivegepogorixibekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/sibipulejedetuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/2320484472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/2952843246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2197cd71ec6e82a31044fc65bf67994/51156292021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/324b38lin19j1cqld3f8aplo9s/92028731909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/539002c468489efb148027445fad9871/wuvafepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/puwonexugumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/90481750923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/86769304778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+spam+ads+on+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_off0000df9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9A 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 602c960ac8573c1373e751313b1474b9bf694b03023e4efc564592cd7db44087
font_01_sfnt_off00010db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CF 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 91867b6ae16e77635d0c8cfd139e34ea58e41061fc8579a2880861f1fefbd747