Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 816275992b0cc77f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 71e0e5c8e059b85b11242d69aa8203d0 SHA-1: 385c9868baed083ea2a608ae307e9f6750fd1a75 SHA-256: 816275992b0cc77ff1c4b21b23f30ae88dcba0481c144b1ca60b79270c8e9000
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a lure for browser extension/update installation and a password-protected archive handoff, common social engineering tactics. Multiple URLs are present, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a distribution network. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://trainova.com/userfiles/file/novaterukejemagabamil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ce53130ae---balobowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8rmgfbbvdl3lf8buqanodo9tc/kagipodofozevirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/siritane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklenicky-obchod.cz/web/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/39680532844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodibituferujasitina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tageedesign.com/ssmpt/documents/file/57751364515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/ralafixadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/norezewabuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456622c6773---lamopejatijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwiwegikovomojuvexovawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/fajuvibegebozaxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613714aae5092---58191490611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/46146937802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/rewinazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49130669435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85929358810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10376917650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614161e13e1d6---55727377516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fed09692ff---94489187750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323f359e382---romajowezukesedoletadimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20366014960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/mawanuxiwetexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/53453811552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62940099695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=phony+add+on+firefox+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_off0000dcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E8 10356 bytes
SHA-256: cf0d62ba32ef94e287912ebdb30a98c38da123ca5dfc1b01dfb2fd8600ede8d2
font_02_sfnt_off00010c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C34 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 045e051b1c7e35d539b8e333b5ce68cb67615684a7bb217be8e075d0dadf4807