Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22ff84ba70b8b69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:14:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe5a6880164922748035797e6b24b69a SHA-1: e1cd7ebce9c4f667e17db326a6570287eaf7693d SHA-256: a22ff84ba70b8b69922387931ac80b83d4f3614407cbff1334140afcf257d340
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into installing a browser extension or update. The embedded URLs point to various hosting locations, some of which are compromised WordPress uploads, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/xaxuwaxazipezekevezabekev.pdf
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/67322557491.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09842cd0f79154bafc7acd892f2a39a5/tirojumalujolire.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137cf57a75d3---32054938031.pdf
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28683158666.pdf
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/2763287764.pdf
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/binorazo.pdf
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/86053757799.pdf
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/vutas.pdf
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/28490842448.pdf
    • https://theptaynam.vn/upload/files/94601235317.pdf
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/21801432159.pdf
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/13972376376.pdf
    • https://matraci.info/UserFiles/File/giwuzibapizunilawotip.pdf
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/90502878626.pdf
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/nifukozutog.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/83208547875.pdf
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74673265360.pdf
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48500332061.pdf
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/91504478799.pdf
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109081649591744.pdf
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77661986674.pdf
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/firapanuvuzoro.pdf
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131aefb48115---gukorolexoled.pdf
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/vewoko.pdf
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loduzetidojatisi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=kiwi+browser+chrome+extension
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df93.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF93 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7aa.bin
84c8751ee1b347d772be5917637bcda7cc3303b5341751a3d44acbf3fd3f5b7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AA 10608 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd6.bin
91150dfbef61428c7da76623a082ccc2276e4e5cb3aff541286f97f1fb29fd34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD6 17924 bytes