Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e0fbd601ca44273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 21:48:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2692729daf22ad581069e61160223da6 SHA-1: 870dd7462e5b64403be1c5e47cbe6f94f1c159ba SHA-256: 6e0fbd601ca44273dedc73c18b98313c24def6a22a65f6ccfb7ba970341ba77b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a payload or phish credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and social engineering lure point to a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fall+guys+ultimate+knockout+download+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/zivenefawokusudakegatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/meviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761bfb94fef---20850149136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/16671250799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667d1ca6ec0704bc2989125c2ecee149/dirorotasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a1aaabff05a6e35d7a794053d9f667/jodulavini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a924592722ceefd8762ad8eb84a2fcc3/xiwopelaniwinakafeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56f10e07ce73cac25ecf2f1e20083e0/65521437465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/79673795519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/60071125443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875c350e95e---46160049696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/zogukawazoserije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070023c77a83---1103146623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f088a8650a---pipifatilimoxuxadurezazar.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_off0000dade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADE 5376 bytes
SHA-256: e54ce6ed4da92a082bfa0611a175dba8bd83e85c655d7985a3ee7a088e283726
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED39 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 6be5518231dcc5ecaedcb871d5fb52144e9a55567b9b9747b440744f5b72a71a