Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b67eb24fd2b76ea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-30 20:17:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 812e1590b26a85b4c121a584cb2132fb SHA-1: 45d86ed6afca9e9b2cb91c7bf405ec4943a5f889 SHA-256: b67eb24fd2b76ea13016679c54ba43fae4ccffc17b0d227c6982fb7eb9901176
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document exhibits malicious behavior through social engineering, specifically a 'Browser extension / update installation lure'. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/95479691084.pdf
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/jelunefelakimemu.pdf
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/82622852572.pdf
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70406903490.pdf
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/userfiles/file/86076840321.pdf
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210903234953.pdf
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/27474188687.pdf
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/lokin.pdf
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021090704561370554.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ff91dd9273---tudan.pdf
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/2704769851.pdf
    • http://tlw.ro/UserFiles/file/89007040815.pdf
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefojifidewusajalojexo.pdf
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29183148792.pdf
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/ludid.pdf
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzokadabudefuzow.pdf
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/51900479549.pdf
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/bututamozukirevononibarap.pdf
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zidosiv.pdf
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/dokuxuwidizatote.pdf
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/towitokibeserosukukav.pdf
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46968226534.pdf
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/buzozitesolofuloriroledu.pdf
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvexukipexesojowalez.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb691c1162468fcda0061ceca11d85f1/tijidulinadipefurobegogog.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42169c697e0aa072989a98b04ef668c7/38433637288.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dark+reader+chrome+extension
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b20d.bin
e4d7f1cbd497245d68fd4416259f61420215fd174fe6d5645d1ec5539a312eba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB20D 10784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000caba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2cc.bin
d26a3e4f612dd26df90ba85c6d5e42a9411e030e6cb52fefe2e155c2ae422eeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CC 14996 bytes