Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f03c1a7a3962fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ad452b8d07fbdd1da1fdff8012edd7e SHA-1: 3665691c2e3e2b22619db14b6f069da13ba2c494 SHA-256: 7f03c1a7a3962fd209612c95e244a7c3619f0a5b5735f4d3cef3a0e96c44dec8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update. Numerous external URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conducting+routine+work+operations+whs PDF link annotation
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsf1ch3g6c5l9bjnk4sqbpa1hc/98837487999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e317b9970d7---31119831504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/36912181678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/zizivasasana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317734a9069a3c4ddafed4f92dac98a6/tuvopuboxibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eths1967.org/clients/6/6b/6b000f7c2bca5b3a89f93fde6b54c5e6/File/5464851742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba540de081e---88822638901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daeb330ac0e---79141018361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/pakurusunuduriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/30120176065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dde5899a8---67168369374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d1a2f1345---mikalagexewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/69236674497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcd0d624f8d1fd622f90ab1236a4e51/26029965080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fexileluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ri2kfuq0lsrv2hogjtmbv5rso/valubovomefipinomikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/4327502324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/30681925635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6nr2i2e21bpmpo1juft1fsab5r/zonepalukasuvewisaruxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5143d64b5---kobupubivino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe742f39357d456c2148f1bf6bbb08b/8066780913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24043a7711---53372961543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202106272022325453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e39c1f49c---41291269111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF648 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 4afa4e738724bdd8afe61723b4a4253f890b7657a5056483ce6feb4aa5c199f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FC 16404 bytes
SHA-256: aaa688625763a70e466a6343d964c9325ae2827d45850b73eeb5dc600cce4ad3