Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1267197bce6973b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 20:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0903b5b8deffc0dd511f9789b1260c18 SHA-1: 70d631059d51969033e5301ff45e9149c66e78c3 SHA-256: b1267197bce6973bad628b4391442468d24e832d30318b5dd31185be2990da51
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a social-engineering attack aiming to trick the user into installing malicious software disguised as a browser update or extension. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, likely serve as download locations for secondary payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=installer+android+system+webview PDF link annotation
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/jirupofokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xageunion.com/userfiles/file/mamofawutotadato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90131816457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkpefa.org/editor_upload/file/wexefivukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/fikowijagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87911285317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/poxenenadixozikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150006.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210914120944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff7c21e606---93106231913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/6936321309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/6243850145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhang.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/92420099162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94025f1cadf8614baaeaf099cd2e7853/16167617758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog/file/mowepukudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021091009364646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/26869581815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bd879f19c---dosesumede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/7218374209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/kunimixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/72986283601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/61611178475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/46450070645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowixonamiwotubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/fekiwajabosowusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kes.org/upload/editor/files/paduxegewanin.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_off0000c228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC228 10768 bytes
SHA-256: da916748d04ab5c0cff2553b68352530aeda1bc3c33f12ebca62e7664a4c9794
font_01_sfnt_off0000dafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFA 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 5703261f618c02f89ef85e3f8ce731466e2ed259a70ce7811870bab1f325bdde
font_02_sfnt_off0001095b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1