Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8c6e29577d6e046…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-08-03 20:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cd0083b39af5478590ce7a3b1d544c80 SHA-1: 1e8b66a6c69cf2da3e4bef012f619a16ff6b75a0 SHA-256: a8c6e29577d6e0464b4a1b3cedc37a5718c072fff11a766f67df0b54251a6914
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts social engineering to prompt the user to install a browser extension or update. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210513001432873.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/91206110676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d520b736e46f8ab5c38a705ffe5f78/84587256458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/34427579473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46015954832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72cbaef6b63b16d218e9533fbae6665d/62844686195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/dugotozakeraxipibonaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/remifalopijibuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9m0mguio4n1cemg5mev27gjt6v/77234030746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2588305634358b70ae777c641e79524/32169036350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc8398add6b---9400537505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/96472839165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/ziteterusipodemifovene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/3280227690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2655fdafcb---zifowerivitupekapala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/030304055873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///mewagebaxizurelidejifuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/25776758509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625382423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/73347755340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4749ecad32914dc26cda0df7359703/15325713471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c82a42bb6337e0800061856a4461348/79006498924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9765a1bc0cbac84e77687ec6505076d3/10326267334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/jivivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bancasemecanino.com/userfiles/files/fikeronoxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/19110510334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=english+grammar+tutorial+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_off00011c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C34 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 71d5b7386cbf50afad7b118ad3b1ce089c9b90b658fffccbde00df6f686e0aed
font_01_sfnt_off000134f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D06 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 35a33a93ac892b6bd1fa5be44bf0d69cc898b7c5f6c773dd82e5517d5c0eaccf