Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbede23b70984d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2253b1ee782799b1e75c6bf5ea78eb95 SHA-1: adf09c05eeb0d6498e915f4578ae2fbd2c2981b4 SHA-256: bbede23b70984d370f43dc149bacfb46b0b7342accc2b72074e4cc68d37816bf
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a social-engineering lure, specifically prompting the user to install a browser extension or update. This is a common method to trick users into compromising their systems. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites or downloads. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • 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://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9e37401c1---40259659052.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3d340a461---wemebekirisabir.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54842eb25a---fabovetiridumawelimor.pdf
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/22015249772.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd231c497b0dd161706cfe3ad82effc9/mesugori.pdf
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/29807813356.pdf
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/44207516124.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5qaoa04nq6n49em3tilqct7l3/faxepiwod.pdf
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/jonupovoloraxunixopezo.pdf
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/22171531187.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d269a3e1780---56365388087.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6be730c88b---maxelosugenedutezuko.pdf
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/guzitabi.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085597101462---82618026151.pdf
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39dde25c491cbcdee57f46fbe807dc1/378612279.pdf
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/jezutikoguvuvisegazutil.pdf
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/kitogodirogoboradurak.pdf
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/17164395066.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761b4034b7f---fimafabarebarudu.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609482108cffa---dewupokolinedipise.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853681f3dfb.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=anime+direct+download+mp4
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011098.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11098 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128a5.bin
1b3841c2fee8ba43fc63a406e9c597005e15855817d1ba6419e16aa87dd4cee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A5 3372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013649.bin
91e74967d850441b75056c95a988c193f1824203b429a7c133520427dfb97de7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13649 18132 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000165b4.bin
8f12e24cb9657c776ba89c8c34ec21675d405b48959f963efc36188a02af7cd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165B4 10652 bytes