Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bac702b3f44f3341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7fbe3b22ea883b79f763255654e7ebbb SHA-1: daed16fe2a5deb95c3a7483433d91a01b99a4174 SHA-256: bac702b3f44f3341f122785112589eef9ae644194523234ef2117ffa31ec6892
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic, indicating a social-engineering tactic to prompt the user for an action that could lead to malware installation or credential theft. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it may leverage JavaScript for malicious actions, potentially leading to exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifn9cnb7q6kfoa835qujue3mj3/jusifaruri.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/25009494488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123flower.doweb.kr/upload/files/83570362728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/kuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86064448523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/31028164423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/57537015100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/27343464331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/20607159057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jttgk31fahkipnhc4gina4bkc/65052300000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/60626976803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/31224287923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/35549510922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134180d81208---xixajalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariomariani.it/userfiles/files/16445518423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/nizibidibinixafelevufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosanaalvarracin.com/userfiles/file/xibekigosuvunovusulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bukazudibozaterupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/juwizebuxizaromomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16316919283035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents/files/kuratiwogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210901105814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabunutajineduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=0x800f0922+windows+updatePDF 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_off000156cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EE6 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 5cbcec0ede87ae2773c41b40f216f133c3087e8b3e077e38dff3ea41fe096203
font_02_sfnt_off0001893c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1893C 18156 bytes
SHA-256: ff9966e55a4054e824b4be728bcb6faf76a39760962b32c7672ac4bb88658821