Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c1363b3121d6314…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 21:46:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1bbd31cb0cd1787037ea00efca8f34fa SHA-1: 70a13fe77ada641ad439b7cfea43af1b426ce6d3 SHA-256: 6c1363b3121d6314cb635c07d857b65829d8ec739c618f7d53c96d3b8d1566f7
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 multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into installing malicious software by posing as a necessary update or extension. The numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely serve as download locations for secondary payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+mkv+to+mp4 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48ebbd00a227e235af4dc7443779d56b/kufigowuxijagajagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26341d28e2fb795dbeb35b3d0217cb12/81787108274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef196d7dbba5dd8c8e2f3bfafeecc7cd/rawipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfafe305ec6---juwenexuxowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a859989e610---mizemolugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t6akeu2ni6t01qmk1p8a37574/mevivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5brkcagh5ojm4nmctv7s3kgrk/88964692526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/mosogurilipizoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfca0ff7b9ba6ef2c61782b46398953f/wuronuwelajaruzijuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832060ac471---famomexuxijagilokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607390e7b191d---pokatewelidajujifivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9c599f81b---xakaxewaboraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/lunopuvufoxoxosabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/76503033193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058279be5500ad59dfaeded8c8c93d8e/pavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E3 4888 bytes
SHA-256: f583b8cfc7fa27a7cfdce511bd4833cf42ed0fffa097799de486f02d7eccd5f6
font_01_sfnt_off0001048e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048E 10768 bytes
SHA-256: d6e865488e2678c622701ede66d7d1765d919d019b8cf48b34b86afe4a5812f1