Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dda942136f89b35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6166382e3d84d1e837d3aa351823d975 SHA-1: 212f2c882ccdd15f32087ecf648e78f75babe818 SHA-256: 9dda942136f89b359cf3e64820420ff91d6de50c17d5028d1d2120293350b226
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing malicious software disguised as a browser update or extension. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+android+tv+box PDF link annotation
    • https://alternativi.brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/dugimajiranofifizaladabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/81904652449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/zonedodubozetebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mchs.kz/userfiles/File/mukerosilemokatugapizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/76533775967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210905133303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/ginipotitixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/rapilabulisetekisolovuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613632a3affb9---50123402431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiquital.com/documentos/file/gelivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/72349703126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83781838719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/59959261247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/1517275667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/26468565447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b84a144b62---51466806731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/65520567310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/96388890905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30606634188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451e24bcd40---43665928712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36764772916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/868044285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/zinusukakawimanobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/jakonidixuxizamadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/lilotirilojubepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadorottya.hu/uploads/frontend/files/53032068149.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD247 1936 bytes
SHA-256: 9aeb06937c81a5c56cf99af8deab830259c8e7bb488e779e8e638c33337cf583
font_01_sfnt_off0000db42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB42 10444 bytes
SHA-256: e5983eb1a751a213a73b2a952c7872ab265c09c9e72852e245e0873a91e5c300
font_02_sfnt_off0000f316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF316 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00010b28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B28 23816 bytes
SHA-256: 267f3ed0a75c9a84df7d60269eabaac0dd1925a31375ce0312ea96ba6589667d