Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 909b8613acb40f80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:13:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c21ac7188d09f8f3772a84ceeac1dbd4 SHA-1: 6e825aef5f173fbf19811ba7961777e211743482 SHA-256: 909b8613acb40f808f3b1e5d966392c7ea25690e1f5441fd3553d2dee73333ab
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests the document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. The embedded URLs and link farms point to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely serving as part of the distribution or redirection chain for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+chrome+extensions+on+mobile PDF link annotation
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/bitoradosurifutozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109100128353624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94f8d0c637d2ca84832f8fd49ef6593/jokoruvifewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/gikovetizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/fafelemajaxaraxije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/61843109023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131574b40066---pezunoxumadujalipafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbfeed.vn/upload/files/mozurekodusagemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/pujodinajonudavujidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/637320862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6ffd6ea2d---69746782959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613358f6f2c40---goxibatoruxopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regilawazumaguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/fuxoduwenunuzanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/43232019951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/samuziretugojudujepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/tezamupugeregaxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/najuvigufagikuserupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozerujibenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68700438201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/nubixububewakutugexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109011710015531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamorufulelemevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/papusidogopusulemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/digolunolesukoxezas.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_off0000d63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE56 10952 bytes
SHA-256: d67fa49789382a1314e17864588338cd846c4782b7cfacde792e4abe5baccf2b
font_02_sfnt_off00010793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10793 17652 bytes
SHA-256: b468ff9cfdc7f37de56e063db264ea3ea6efd627da3debfe08edf6bf73fb6a12