Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 919a8931930e7b0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-08-14 12:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3f6008f94582009332525f930da2fb62 SHA-1: 8f2a68f80c666eeae741fdee93b327a4ec532a08 SHA-256: 919a8931930e7b0f16f7956e5888041b02eb6088bbd5baed73a5ce32e7465735
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1553.005 Security Software Tampering

This PDF document is classified as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a social engineering attack. It employs lures such as installing browser extensions and disabling security software, aiming to trick the user into executing malicious commands. The presence of multiple embedded URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/dobigiputejubuzopajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/85853287105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46287792857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/fixutekumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/24826925913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thi7809uquqgj10j6qu6tnv9q5/sirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/zugufiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/murowujufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/50717359308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepogojawedagekazenava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68411d4e11---famominub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/fevasivuposen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2l4c1g7f33bhfe1cragkneae4/81184374799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1624219660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/zelamulalofopubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609022c88f5e5---76390481849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980e05db983---jatefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/21513512951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203aa848de202a31979b14f0a06441d1/7049724812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/38614135217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/65572151368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/91390059135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e2a061f5b---wowubabobetajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/wunaxujifowosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=widevine+content+decryption+module+chrome+macPDF 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_off0001099b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000121b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B2 10884 bytes
SHA-256: faab6e300b032871c6f1fbd72ede73b884e63e84b25130983962203d9dae0000
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA8 17536 bytes
SHA-256: d17109da3cb4ad51aef1432b6135d1f26fbe94ba8dc816707f087dc79667b31e