Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71d68d83f971194a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 05:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a8af7ba303e93b3bcf0b3ac011990888 SHA-1: dfe7a6a6cf747125abc36cfa52e4358f12999ea6 SHA-256: 71d68d83f971194aa9abb450355afcc4129b142eb3823d66fb3664a1101643b3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests the document is designed to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, further support the phishing and malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp0kl4innrghlif6g2n5lt8mh/77806006265.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4193ef1c5dbeec26cfea2f35442c6016/wijelawinowapinolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c408d1ada56---kudemakonumupelomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba81477f19c---71150141251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ca76ebd1a---femoturimugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1d54a1ed1---xogim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47973f4985460d7ab4adaccd0f917f8f/918625637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewusakuderumojako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/vupojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/wuvejodadegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44636560964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a027e870f---wesotalebexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6129ea71abd8c33911540bcb24e49fb/suriwivekikomazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaa2194b84---70071054300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/706e185128a0a49528f1c801ec8356bb/55969400505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879247284f84d4de95781e7feb5eae68/31735129355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72923e4425---44679217609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/32595562528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuc6terlf913pkp5dhaovd9gl6/32116601218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqn4iu6bptnra9u8dfgl9l72sa/61111885262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/38151100991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/folagotupadinipale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/xinidiziroxatagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=affidavit+of+personal+knowledge+of+marriage+pdfPDF 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_off00013f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000157a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157A5 19284 bytes
SHA-256: d7a90eea976acf856b030dea57a8c50194f32f5b183ded50b4c77fe038131f85
font_02_sfnt_off000188c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188C5 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 44e9dd66620c7a6cb1122c3f9db37a00dc7e19968694b0fe6dcf19421a845661