Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e1577051d71ac2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 0f734337a6e76a6abfd9ead3f6540459 SHA-1: 27091bf21e18ac26ca848039169200c556de8c44 SHA-256: 9e1577051d71ac2b4fc6a08aa5aec900113de685a7203c42488523b77588d183
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document employs a social engineering tactic by presenting a lure to download a browser extension or update, likely to facilitate further malicious activity. The presence of multiple external URIs, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of the user's trust to execute a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+apk+and+obb+file+download PDF link annotation
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/womep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607213c801198---poguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/80780560715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9957ce3b6---96380355624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de5531485---26270487641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/23315190737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9b928c923---86835813150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6i8j7bnu70oi4g3rs3lrii2ir/sodaxozitunodesakafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec2d1b8205efb5c822fee0fdadffc8d/nexenajakebupiditabedero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb51228e56---ditimovapatodevajazotuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1bcaacfe---18956361327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/18812810238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/63840860874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5533ddc12a---getoxuwotevutixitapisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f193c1f098---27179314464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000102b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 61d2a8d25de40f6ba1fb0cc34971cb5347d662c0befd096e2da199b052e2fae6
font_01_sfnt_off000114b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B0 10620 bytes
SHA-256: a8eb6976467bc90d251840bd7f88f401787ac7d3fd1064b0f14a8f4278c8ab2e