Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a8f195efe901c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b88c89097fa3858fa95419df3d907699 SHA-1: 5ddc900271dabe2cf3830cb752c7a6de7f0c28df SHA-256: a6a8f195efe901c53410b2582b3f8dd58fef29d899aa9ec85c68c57183a1b181
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple heuristics indicate malicious intent, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a social engineering attack to trick the user into installing malicious software or extensions. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the execution of malicious code or redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cochemical.com/upload/files/rajemixukonibizezebu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guravivifoxufuzexatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/50413460097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09dddba457baf2a90c90e7c496977105/61592497665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/ralozowufolulopuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theoakshealthcare.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66647268033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/jonetafaxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ae2faccce---2928379239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/91949771761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/siwaduwuxikewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbf0a940b9---dupiwoviravutefidojafaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/1093531789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/13417909427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/32557765910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/97589587056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicorn.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekivapafimoxapivixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/sisuxovidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/nomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/kubanimasewoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/55399265989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/77341288228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613094134f3b3---rorivinopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6291537244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/38822943026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/zijedepifalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+fb+post+on+androidPDF 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_off0000da54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA54 10708 bytes
SHA-256: a96c7d9be522c02385e02dd265f7beb850615bc76ff35e241e08abc31642806b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C9 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 6ec8bee9f95ec769141c1f4d4c690d1fe4d648f262ee0c4ed98f510b00375ffd
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1