Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab2c58a2bc98fb34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 620fba1222ff60c3f4fc29e2ac55803a SHA-1: 9a178c9ee4c221cf791f6d0e97d3dc40d12cc51d SHA-256: ab2c58a2bc98fb34fd6c147097d313f0e3c4c7cbdca329d77e4d9328c37446d7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a social-engineering lure to trick users into installing browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to lead the user to malicious sites or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f411a623f0---36862431326.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/tijavokusorejukutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/kuvulopazomukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/71878473423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///56903248334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92cd99b08dd42ecef2db42f3aa60a56e/57876800797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/65967339901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didaktika.drmix.cz/uploads/files/bekogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/85033410675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenit-npk.ru/files/file/zakobosulinosunifovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xisipebigerivatanavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/90915929593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/27453530402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/mobosufejegolexitatixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/wubafidebonusudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/69482067005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/54524163103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137817de832b---78994163839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/jageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/52585957400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/jugokumiduraxirujorejelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/53517007045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/38583636249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40177538223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.eu/userfiles/file/92368165551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+robux+without+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000dc6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6C 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 54ad921ae68d6de19bd03d52e572b6ffdac9feae469d352cff4d52a48dce7da7
font_01_sfnt_off00010af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF2 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 57d6eff716a305ac495e8e0df07e595630a4bbf7cf77995aa428dd95d6101c71
font_02_sfnt_off0001249a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1