Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a6355897a6e4a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b14d8e4d504b46e3c1045b692629ef3a SHA-1: 63c25acd9ad336a981dd15b9911110f734ac448e SHA-256: 9a6355897a6e4a63c433bf682d106f18b1a952b3bbcc7baec1b042fd27ec2d7c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into installing malicious software by posing as a necessary browser update or extension. The embedded URLs, such as ketchas.ru and mimpi1pusat.com, likely serve as download sources for the malicious payload or further stages of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=out+of+your+mind
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/94517453413.pdf
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/lizasevafozeluxazug.pdf
    • http://kezmosas.hu/files/file/16596909474.pdf
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/12177214028.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a883cdd1a0ad2a679ff989eb171ff7/jawatolijefalososofugola.pdf
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/85682652784.pdf
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcce79272b---11667501163.pdf
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075511e86321---peminumanokebebudorom.pdf
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6fde7935a---10160441682.pdf
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67rt4d5m4e6ee4j03fd2sv6jj/veponotajukex.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c074c9b2f3f3cbe2cf6060b3edc929/wamorosixago.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cddb79aaa54---bugebefolisutorotowef.pdf
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/juvolotozalisojes.pdf
    • http://thetachikappasigmaalumni.org/clients/5/56/56ac51e2ee760b54d3ff8b7d53c877b7/File/36711270667.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52084090da---bugekugaxifuzazuwoviva.pdf
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098300450213---fajenaxikexedarivepelo.pdf
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/47032284681.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4e22d2e8d5ddc808e7386f5f345e7f/54015041569.pdf
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34515493259.pdf
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/naluwukotibimeduxomikik.pdf
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/jijiberugitaro.pdf
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/ximojekituja.pdf
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/jopageligozipe.pdf
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/wapemew.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc3ccce5d3---70474630555.pdf
    • 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_off00011d92.bin
fe66e1d0a4426964b4227650e6bb32457dbab3bef6f7af95ae37a7cebbd77a2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D92 17320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014ae1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000162f8.bin
1453d17d59dfa1c9996400e46541b9133fc0a240edd9425c3d8c0cdf23c0b4e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162F8 10244 bytes