Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8edc7de49df80380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 20:07:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1cd0b0548cf10b3686b8d0655f22c1ff SHA-1: 86eef77ae9b707231998cae7b7c5d266086647d4 SHA-256: 8edc7de49df80380c8d5560ee9cad055ce0d611249bf62b5f20130fa3e69d249
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a social engineering attack designed to lead to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tuvelosir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922d993b197---28508404203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/taduwakuzuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/bixijagole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/sajixiserifuxewezerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c546bq2li5u0gl7uor7imthm5t/nilajujaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/salodobunonisidamuroxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/nobusiwijaxopisowegovavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsrealtyvietnam.com/upload/files/71078541603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/zejugozokabowebiziroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/94440263589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/94350552640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/poniserazupogazefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705a4f33b6e---wojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15605382978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eee77344d8cc1a6fd7bfa4038630d5c/8154334314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebanofatopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/53855266538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba9ed0c220---45744473743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51773748389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d164e34e7a035f72cca8e193ab45e26/gekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee22339fd6---tewovetaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bcdfb0f80---xunuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076241e71ba0---6966098477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/sisukikuxoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+make+a+bitmoji+header+for+google+classroomPDF 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_off0000e459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE459 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa9ddd9196a58478c663a7f55ca8a1a346c0bf3f26db7e4e832e3a93a4dcd9f
font_01_sfnt_off00011349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11349 11256 bytes
SHA-256: b9926334ea62436390ad5d4f8f12e911183875913e9ab77ab999b70e85340d57
font_02_sfnt_off00012d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1