Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a48195437b377414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5806e8aca6e185385893bbd9fb482e26 SHA-1: d13a2586dce4a4cf8d9b997e2421794afdd0f269 SHA-256: a48195437b377414b0c5d25852939fba55d59f09a3aef5f647567b5959912ca5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into downloading and executing malicious content. Numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting were extracted, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fmovies+friends+season+5 PDF link annotation
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b94a46ea065f18a325a4ab3bd26061/16801684208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6654288442a2ba9f5c80682faa707ee7/zerutovutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137583525a7f---41163566503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-12/4d0e18b23f545ef98e5a235751629a77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavaladivumatoretezafeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivepesiguvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/dekekoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/46589665503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/10836283194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57469912687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210908181707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a790bbf058da85a9a2d4e9f0da2f1d/xalujigizexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panemusifidopatarikobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/wajoxokezizevibewavare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/15521311992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210910235342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/mejaperarizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcstonetw.com/uploads/files/202109100431348833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93622901200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/31965690186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a81e0458345e59f4e7f2edd50d95741/pupoxitasudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/11444782962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/17114793468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f415a37fbaee59d0e61a43e7a0dbd96e/buvek.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000139d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D2 20196 bytes
SHA-256: 10c1e23c8f52609e72118b73a4197e9d769c984664c4c9aad5c5c1017aa715bb
font_01_sfnt_off00016e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18668 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 64c70789792ae5074aee6f9a4ec943419e3d42bb010800422028442a5d30ad39