Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75ba682c00aba956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:45:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8d1fc7ac9e561eb37c43ad729f43591c SHA-1: 6fc2c5a735f6f0a4a2e2c18f1e9b99045bfc2c7c SHA-256: 75ba682c00aba95664b0d19d09112996a9cd64bb1ad6de737335e97ed3af8f7f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning 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 a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely involving a social engineering tactic to gain initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/kowokefufobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozujowijezerufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4a68d3dc3055fecc61e423b8f3a7e8/puseziboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87v86i5qqijo6u5g25j088j3do/26994151450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9a45a8804---jifameveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/33202471129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/xexuvorabunasitifirunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/nagetesexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/64207430075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectsextherapy.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wejilobuwusuwatijebime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc45a825b8---96182625670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/teranukubujegulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/22328734774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021090912342229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinge168.com/uploads/files/20210902231508_482295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94a18d6735cb8ebbff8df13e6618e8b/bulumomikozinikomuxodorif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomicattack.com/atomic/fckimages/file/47914600864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/50666807002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/32345110833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/lawoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2254549156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/66195969020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/pomisifedizuratagavoduger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegivojarovegokuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=alternative+web+browsers+for+androidPDF 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_off0000bc38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44A 16900 bytes
SHA-256: b8a1a916d1bcdd3cb0ea7155fd53377b38c0b5f5f274aa5ece62aaeef3a0e557
font_02_sfnt_off0001000f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000F 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e375aa4f7f97716bfc16fc25d38321472c0800a6d760ed806dd19087d44005f8