Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cba0f536c8ac762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:38:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6ddf94dece0ea5dfcae238e5d16e6e96 SHA-1: f31051345d07c4d74f5405701be18e166ca5fd5c SHA-256: 7cba0f536c8ac76208bac3468828ef21f4272dbb137e9fb0118443fe19c5d5ca
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update. This is a common tactic to trick users into downloading and executing malicious payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and the embedded URLs suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially compromised sites or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/71224398073.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139700039658---gazewaxorokubaxixegilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/xikixowugugazexogokefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/duridisavizanugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/reget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/zogozezejisopiwubegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417ac397c3d---26982615989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbrasil.com/userfiles/file///15699732868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/noramizoziwidasudawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/nalorimozamuziwegovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/61827674343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/86820992833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voparafenurerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64762169954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52451725351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80103846597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3716837c7---31033338801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/61840183851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/niguxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/letujosojefarebefapunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/60359384558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvovaxadejagovamilenotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f168515cf6325c9bf55e90f6450dfa30/valese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/12410423890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/58048624851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=quicktime+player+chromecastPDF 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_off0000d848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 4174c7029bd5c1617c46442ec6047ecfc4e495cf4602376a61d2f0ef4bd4d8ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A4 17880 bytes
SHA-256: a960c89259f33516f724b63a2bba71cdeedbe9bb2cac88dd9cbc489d00605fbf
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1