Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0b7246b1e05f4be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a286cf260e07a6796d53cadcc9b50bc5 SHA-1: 33f5ca774be0f0d158de61487216b979b4b157ac SHA-256: a0b7246b1e05f4beaff939bcf6c94c9543f7f1b28df1e26a8f67731db8dacd15
296 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating social engineering lures, specifically requesting recovery secrets or payment redirection, and prompting the user to install browser extensions. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs likely lead to further stages of the attack, potentially involving JavaScript execution to facilitate credential theft or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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 http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/68715351384.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ab5b58828---jusipixujafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/xizusebapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/zarorigure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pplh3u5qe8voon83hpcmci2bf/gofusagewibamavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/27355801929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/13638357104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c22b6ac39---jipojuledururamoxukavofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/79651379741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed1c1f3ed0---11540326249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adff7e419f1---44199798580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/47321521066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/nesikuwomuwavukibavefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/pisovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhjmfamily.com/clients/5/5d/5d8645f74963a96e1aea25f3b610eff6/File/befinexoxolizujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947509ee29d---sidikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abd838c8af60291689b58ce3367c1da/luzogarexofejuxedovoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/vawuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d623f40b5dc---95513157190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30832566700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detalipebopujeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/faboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/3639585884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/getorubaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ubuntu+server+guide+ubuntu+documentation+team+2016+pdfPDF 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4B 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 83a34bdd20f4698ea305c3eac943472dc38b710fda44a6af25dfba92f30c0458
font_01_sfnt_off00010c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12420 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 663cc82a489c97f985a8f476e8750e772d4006ad67f1c75bcf9df0baa74496c3