Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a602d36d2e95b307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 963fd7f6702a80e390498273f89d399d SHA-1: 8b6943d8fd865bee669583b7301ccb063572ebc5 SHA-256: a602d36d2e95b307b944f0da15f60ecac3bbba11d36180caad5f64a9b5aa980b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests the document employs social engineering to prompt the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. The presence of numerous external URLs, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crack+amazon+prime+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/97626847562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/49238179625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwodajedutofasuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nileagriculturalindustries.com/file/dezubixitimizowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/laxonawafawosekutozoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/96927613769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34843219603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/gemubezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bc2509085---vudugimepuganof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210910130204634467vaacpy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/bonosemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/23743073866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wacommerce.net/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelinobufurefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66983189609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/90888889382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ab438fa47---21841154935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/26542283655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geroleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tivafa.hu/upload/file/99061175552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorazotufirepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/77319894523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6e72c4d38---13183006716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f6be19a7f---16848807954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3dvanub9an3qu3fs84flh4pv0/49502971130.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_off00010767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10767 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9b8f0a0e0b1d8c7db1486389f9b5cc792c822d2df930bd2b286b326695a3ff
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF9 18636 bytes
SHA-256: a16845d40614b91e667cb57a048064565feda2cb3f84463190c3ba5f3920c695
font_02_sfnt_off00014f70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1