Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b5d592259498ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 3c4c3e57f4af716f5f37560d213d66c5 SHA-1: 9adb0a884ee2be8d7e098a4912f5f42489345903 SHA-256: 9b5d592259498ed9ada96493c007905d0838b2bb20a80c5ef4c4925a886eea5b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a lure for a browser extension or update installation, combined with a visual download button, indicating a social engineering attempt. Several URLs point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting the PDF is hosted on compromised infrastructure to facilitate the download of a malicious payload. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f94a902463---mupimoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076eddccf667---zowetonesibexupaxekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/61534726178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7a42c8c3---32681785476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc04c5327a5---fagolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/gerupolosuxonajesimuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amd73q2fpo87f6kbu9semc795u/44286583353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730865e913c---gokiputisodabesuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0ddc3cc09---40447039853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/zezutotiderebikubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086843186dbf---xanewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/71601390586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb73ce60bb---mobimepuxiwemoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2a8775c67166ffb450bf86084d620b/vejowegowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6blnrtl1khbj43b5g59kue04/42714853832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=save+as+pdf+and+xps+free+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC8 5020 bytes
SHA-256: b1f5ff77d7b93cfbc2b189877d824ad023fd175304e7853b1d462995914dd545
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEC 11760 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3a2a5668402898044df632228c60e8052ab0e014969b9766aaa62c049cae8d
font_02_sfnt_off000123be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e