Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc7b72c5fe99ee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-02 10:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e2ce550e235498d8cdc152bd5e97cb0 SHA-1: b51fab5d0e6b3e5fd150b115a4cbdd0ab4a4c420 SHA-256: 8dc7b72c5fe99ee6e7bf7d3f0a5d457c4e6ee352785e50ccd330014ca804a1b4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and malware distribution lure. The document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to PDF files on potentially compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/28851319347.pdf
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38124318875.pdf
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/pevedevisu.pdf
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210619110207.pdf
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/84663848601.pdf
    • http://better-pharma.com/images/file/files/xiluwepiduwogerili.pdf
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/5585408105.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cc3cc6c0a---feranugepo.pdf
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/zezajifosufodowuvuk.pdf
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/13081250793.pdf
    • https://naoshima-habitant.com/26925057763.pdf
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/somafirenazoxutelirenewid.pdf
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/34067848134.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094339b16225---95666845673.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758b81cd4e3---82583498294.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de286972754d8c928e272ddc53a73641/2849638129.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a05c32cfe8ca9c0eccd7e30009b574/90940406695.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38c9963d9dd57e19a9d8bc2a7484996/nigoje.pdf
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/ropuzotufisuvuse.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c36f377589b187aa0dcfc46d7d73d51/2881961605.pdf
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43213149019.pdf
    • http://charlotteellisscholarship.com/clients/a/a5/a56794a54ce3a7e2a8fdc514f00cf952/File/puropesumigubigafoje.pdf
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/62787467493.pdf
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-17/20210717084831136597.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceaeafebbe7---32406108419.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+facebook+profile+visitors
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f01a.bin
ed38415f8a9c8db24451ea5091e81dd4ee1452a77eb3fe5d060cfda58a89fd48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01A 10848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001091d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001212f.bin
98bd740237f0bef1b7258a9dd4600763b1bd0c1ea36acf693d50ebd54cf49a39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212F 17072 bytes