Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8936ae865961aa61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:54:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8cac86cb32df2fe1df60e520b156beee SHA-1: c9099654698414e59b66da3e51b6e5c1192e8f93 SHA-256: 8936ae865961aa615c414a547b1a8bd6f80549ddac443fe66f78a4aad41f0089
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into installing a fake browser update or extension. Several URLs extracted from the document point to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4fl6e8ul8pvk5j9b0la7k6mp3/35083072099.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/76417346914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210603014844_eldmw2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8660b0d01ef4622e8a397e7d038668/bitulafubagujovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84068399903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayamalay.com/clients/874202/File/87471377568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5db4d586f9---91857741722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/julibizexomobixejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/zikaxakebeginokarebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/vubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210830_33915F0CB5585DAC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee70cbd0ced---gekufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/kefizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/53331027314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776456cc5c6---jufewujojevosikotapovevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/jobuzepugovepaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/lotuxumevefemugatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test-immo.com/file/gezalavalabamironem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/42240182515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/52500377181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97127720299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf1f8ebace3245c791c84c4f9342ccb/pubarepudovexize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/wozaxuzuwenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/14472363006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rearranging+equations+in+the+form+y%3Dmx%2Bc+worksheetPDF 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_off0000cc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE491 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe256a4c9cf0c805d104f05066e6537371bdacfe10b41410bde47a40c895a70
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5C 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 846840b17a9da418bdc3569361c200e54911e7a187c106b1d2d7a8e7e25e7b4a