Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82cf4901c9b127f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4126499d83dabb0bcf48affdad39a09c SHA-1: b1174620a229da84d4c68935138c13417afabff0 SHA-256: 82cf4901c9b127f003791000081392a9678f43409e8ba281b1cfecbc5bb94240
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV. It impersonates Microsoft and uses a social engineering lure to prompt the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The document contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=functions+of+infinitives+worksheet+pdf.
  • 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://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/32473840740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/88967447418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/46191318518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/16196647041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhhuubinh.com/upload/files/kakifukutatuguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/paripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/rifiwuxugonepunuweladuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607879dc33df1---68067012393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.com/uploads/files/fasepajemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bi6vl92mgaca3io2d0e5gqug7/31149660024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59410618eb1a2a824bdc04ded63a410d/gefemufulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/43767789720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60549a5b8b---52855933653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/14247800379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iccg1v6lfdnf66ib74ae5nfcl1/sejojajuwedide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885730bf4bc---60564323963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210527162212470883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exxontel.com/file/90810843956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f116cb4826f8435c84bc79d14f541b69/lupetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakoxatolatitenurubetowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce62a65a94---89783911247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59459648229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xuvigawuzagivitadufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=functions+of+infinitives+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EE 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 7880aec4b321024933b61c135aab6b0ea213ddcc38634ffc4f87c1ea6f827f1d
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7C 10828 bytes
SHA-256: e56a485ca89ab68adcac1bd50f95cf588a2383228ffd2d910c3eb1ac9d4dcc33
font_02_sfnt_off00012587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12587 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1