Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a09b92fc63a6dae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-15 14:24:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a3d9a0b9e2b32f592eeb913dcbb8978 SHA-1: 32758de666cb71f0bd913e55bff8dfdae80cd4c3 SHA-256: a09b92fc63a6dae0913f7c532c4f4e5c6f1aff10ef399b5088c513ccebc54516
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document employs social engineering tactics by luring users to install browser extensions or plugins, and also instructs them to copy and paste content into command-line interfaces, likely to execute malicious code. Numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting were extracted, suggesting a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+avi+to+mp4+free+online
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210527055616_2026347726.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a145b6d675bfc039c0e148456c3f5d9e/panosowur.pdf
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/51560621989.pdf
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcdb5771dff181124a563f5979e801a5/kezajemoforin.pdf
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca3aad7f25844caa602edeeda6951769/48819722762.pdf
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91b31379a4cd714814f481902761d54/22560786653.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607667a7072b6---vefeso.pdf
    • http://kudusde.org/resimler/files/zibajofawow.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d934ab9df---96668191773.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831a01a09a7---xavupefanoririboke.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fd42a5f30---ginubefujapi.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/30216508159.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e3dd7423f---jomov.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6389a050538b4516cc1a27a4d4c7838/85465252724.pdf
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mq41tbfc93qec49vg27csv5rrs/84810915411.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/39747576429.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc69bbe48d9---titolorajele.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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3bb2bb767592d332b212d9a0c12499622fd0881bd46dbfbdfa23792448927e45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAE 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb62.bin
d9df1ee465b016c884423cdca44b7db62f06c8063c62dfed976d43922e4d0759
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB62 10512 bytes