Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9a5dd511c267cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 09:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 05d5101b10564968114c3607d57a16ff SHA-1: 624c50b92d899232858ddced7cd5e92780310b3f SHA-256: 6f9a5dd511c267cdf45eec84ca89b78a24f697da90d9b7fd26de622913e34216
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery mechanism. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick users into installing software, a common tactic for credential theft or malware deployment. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a potential download or redirection chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9726

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://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff63b6dba9d645840d7b9de4e7a818d/fofotagej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820a70939bf---74075100939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed097f118f0f25fbe8d907873933fc8/7558021049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53feb07e4c---5059626478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlcjbvc4hjlj8s16l1o6infmmf/24836631222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a792c671e74---mimer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/24130635847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/joluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/basaraxusejuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dccec24db---tozizulifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0mbibmj42sn82iuv57o7316pn/javibavodobobire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607515ae4b624---xarepajuvaganomixire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/919c620db566c13297818e036e715841/dujilepokodiwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cod2jkn8g4kmceo2hi3g02gvi1/rotuxaxiwabulezewawubakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23e47db0d4---67032144736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/36640289898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpunh1a565rof6mkkochs5c4it/vilisimorizipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02779923f3bc79499073be7bed139512/76779221203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/lamufepixeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/powibipivaruvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/46221543147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/tiwogagezudapebikozegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3d02192c80a87578c4a85bb670b408/74509050387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39ce4d86ff---73045138531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084195ce9177---10471068512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/wazedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=uc+browser+free+download+for+pc+windows+7+32+bit+filehippoPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0E 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 388cdc33406a9094623e024ec3cef5041a2ffe007b85bc8a5a2eac83fc4ba627
font_01_sfnt_off00011577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11577 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_02_sfnt_off00012af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14305 17548 bytes
SHA-256: db60f18fc805a90c48555055191cee6d6c5116517df0daf22611ba8a592474fe