Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cd214e42c9c5178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: df5cb367ac6913da36b2224baf74526e SHA-1: e3411c9b53877b570dbbef81520c77d0b789babf SHA-256: 6cd214e42c9c51786ca9395f5d5c4ae3f4f09e5ffb0101c9e9b3d35c36f470b3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lure suggests it would likely lead to the execution of malicious code, potentially via JavaScript, to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://sql110.com/pic/pogaxavobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb6777181b7529a9b517de78d7d288a/79682092576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427c9272883ecf092db770628bb88c6d/vusoralum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/73021210838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/32824786705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613572d2c3812---24093124940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/tuxikijuzizugutazoserew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/40120236900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maymaygiaydachidang.com/upload/files/fukujugesumemibozafubaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addon-colsman.somantec.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77001146414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202109061636077217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613582b9266a8---sevofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/9653807197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342d1e95634---7607883050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/zijusopiwatiromavizujoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/75297410964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/21893279065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewakuborekadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotig.ro/file/24298940493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47463272206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/93618136641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71949006206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62502456783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/31852278065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+chrome+web+storePDF 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_off0000d99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99C 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 90833e8be3f13797067868836b55b64192ad28d0d92aa26f0ae3541b843fe3f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF165 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 18e950beba6420e11db512208c51e330617516dd2cff6308dfeda321accbf342
font_02_sfnt_off00011fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1