Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d3749f93c5e92d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7ecca41147cdee94e636c016af358d26 SHA-1: 06c9805cf366bd6b0cd3014e99ad71ea2443cf59 SHA-256: 7d3749f93c5e92d3471eee52d0a025be78ccd9026bdd469e35d5e14fc314e90f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document uses social engineering lures, such as a fake download button and a prompt to install browser extensions or updates, to trick users. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0e468eb569918fff4a9abdc0e620211/rokajutobup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/xesojudagetigotazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161083d4730100---kukilasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2nb1755ape1hmfqp78shri44q/44010336013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/49066076624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zugozafafazonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewafiwogufemexurabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ol737jc95on299ajc3e2b6372/gakisovukamelejolopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pl55uqdfvk3ej1h4451q835tt1/xaxalewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/14475408752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e050c1e57---75621518448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sajeveweluwipetikigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04e83006f0---koxupigiputemesodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/82321719202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/62980428400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac92359ae09---89679994577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/5884393658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1331a364---selapomowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xasilakufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terremeraude.com/userfiles/file/48049345943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f8899b720---faloxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e137eaff34c58f3909e35d4e0016ff0/81187439505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b809b5e8b7---tisetowubidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=5cm+full+moviePDF 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_off00014da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DA3 18996 bytes
SHA-256: 869bb0e55a61266166760dafe56df708949c8a4b3a1164587e3902b9008342d2
font_01_sfnt_off00018093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18093 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000198aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198AA 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 1cedcb402877ced3fe6f323bd86d7c497e6dbdae0e653e3c9d04f55a58efcbed