Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77c90400ca852856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:27:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c399a206f7457fea0c1a3c5e676cae7c SHA-1: b2be492b0a4730b32ebd704a5bcde7b35b1d47f2 SHA-256: 77c90400ca8528568086461a44702bb1ac0b467f8eb107d9e5ebc6250a36d2a9
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document presents a fake download button and lures the user into installing a browser extension or update. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/29974437120.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135004d6f558---4679051185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/daliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/49566613822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8275173252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/vomagenagufilewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614241409f30c---49656774198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/71842281577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/xagegakejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/wupodekopajowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallorcaboom.com/res/wysiwyg/file/sowufometebeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/wixokiwisepesowelakede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e0005fe07720feda13a1dc2333f779/vimokejegenosojafuwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61229321490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6014954e6b530f520ccc886b905f51d/10011341260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/vinegivireregerogamoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/sovibigigusotididupoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/50056505469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimolafixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/nuzodagakafutave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386006220a2---lubifuguvolijemewedipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/73906325444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/suxapidebupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/82589890932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/vetogutudawatekamikuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hacks+for+ragdollPDF 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_off0000c261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC261 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 27a482e66876271382fe9eb37fac783148d7967dc6d1bec0e5689cfd5676319f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BD 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 5e26a6693a36e95b1895ccdbb29ed70a4d3a969bcede8b3585fcb78ebee15340
font_02_sfnt_off000108e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1