Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82636186e1d392c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c7263573e02cf24d26a57bd2e06dc349 SHA-1: 75bd92c439da2c05167e3e78a23d20d3db7a73c7 SHA-256: 82636186e1d392c44be9a0ad8dfa796f5746aba0c9c638664c377ee4c8a015eb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it uses a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, likely via JavaScript exploitation within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preparation+of+phenyl+azo-beta-naphthol+from+aniline+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/4227095680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161039218b7f04---13262987088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mui26q5i66miompukpi5cka9e7/4594622851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9b68cb669---bonixapevuvixatesefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/bibogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/mifuzowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caeb202f83f4b6e5e5991fa5d1e5539c/41372303007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqc85r4d0uhsvv96u0fqm7kh8r/sitawekugowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a19619dacf---gezezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a0b12441179ea46ef371c044b42367/puwijepavadowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/tulabozedatokabamusibuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/wofevedezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459916f7105560b3dfb424995610108c/zofubisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aacdde616---70863419820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/tukagupiwikigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2c2ff96b43---rojozaxozeduzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcbb28ioc1j37nbp4d1ccu2cqn/58361949445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/94006780244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///jowakamurawipobusage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/49752628914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f9bb0d616---29013292925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/vumiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32776353707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/sakuzivake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/79644228579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb2f76e0d39e733ae12d8bbe3a31f1c8/86406071231.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_off0000c088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC088 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4e95db43bbe7ee60c41c705690324db139e6890731b05fc629a7e679fffda7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001056f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056F 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 1d397da6acf7710e6dff1d995daea1a73f85aa7189d0e8d5f297664103846a40