Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e9e4daaecc23fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-10-05 18:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 86cc45d31946c05504f32bba4e33a9f3 SHA-1: 35ff011af0b8f67b0950eb4ceb53bb16e3cc2d87 SHA-256: 93e9e4daaecc23fd29a2d772093c9cc85efdc116eb18ec90332e0276c220fe7d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the lure suggest it may attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload, potentially involving JavaScript execution within the PDF viewer.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+web+store+page PDF link annotation
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/69455239049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/maguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/xugejiwafuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b42076cffd---6605663868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/defoxatepelejeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/13553850962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dafixaxutonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtuae.com/uploads/file/32433579107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2b3la571ga-70p.com/contents/files/27413197594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c77fa23b8f---dizoxajigawitibuwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/dowurimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-22/20210922164527937086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/9488055748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatalk.ilvzhou.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109280749071208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/3717140952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/91107917830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/leluruxopevelonolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4vtacgppdg8eo28eir9nbu9f4/81713876023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/21069081719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/gepopanigoxuvojevawepazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/dezuzefela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcconsulting.eu/klc/file/42840724798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam12.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/64177035628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a30d0088c98e99eb37d268f5faf72d/58631632883.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_off0000dbd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD2 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 4e1a12a4a0124a057e527454aecfff3e711643c3f25080b9ccda142e977e9a4e
font_01_sfnt_off00010c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C52 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d4dfee75838d35bc1b05685825f15eb084f9c3cbaf31f23204c8e84b4bdda7c3
font_02_sfnt_off000124d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1