Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd63f36ab036f0cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df6ab9363ae0eb709e04202b4f7597ae SHA-1: 7e57ff1d45077062a79dc81b6dee640cda9255b8 SHA-256: bd63f36ab036f0cf49c59f8724fbfb8a866fcf22c84bcd3a23c02305faccd9ea
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document employs a social-engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content, which is a common method for distributing malware or stealing credentials. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://alaskaproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68029729219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxodakazozujagurefutuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/39953601786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b3fdb2c8555ef765fbb28a23e38190/77149394101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59684834539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is3ou9to5ud958tsp83ajel6mj/silusofili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/porijedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crbz.ru/userfiles/file/74102195223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents/files/pozubewamirosipuvixebogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7f12136632cbae5930cb8e6627cd75/saforufarasukexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potya.com/41706846121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/44094184918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omegaplus.bg/uploads/pages/files/puvezikanogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370f1c04a22---26069603138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/73614789183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/mogelutiwuwulesugunawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_49F16A3F5D56E623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/kovujadikowilutaniteguvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2d199c1b3cd8239fc60973b00116f1/33044691193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/vexilasali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/labezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/80498966105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/85498938103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagticket.com/fck_upload/file/zepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/1060980785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/mazaxenuxagoluvoludod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+messages+from+android+to+iphone+after+setupPDF 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_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 3e02384109e89763052118a1cb234cacdc68bf38869404b8d331e38c2d27ddba
font_01_sfnt_off00010afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12312 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 1d0990c492521423335fec4d9a7b683545c56b8498f8909fab9e69aa437ab83c