Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfbdda4d8d7c4076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f25fa4821b0c7ff51f905c481ca693ad SHA-1: 3771d700955cae4072a720411a6c824e0de4ac94 SHA-256: bfbdda4d8d7c407640793a1acf221304724f3439cf7881b43b3941f974283511
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick users into installing software, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or link farms, suggest an effort to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=please+enable+screenshot+at+android
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/goriwabazak.pdf
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/lozesuxetijezebaxumu.pdf
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/84179150086.pdf
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/pivejilalozixelivelefeka.pdf
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/wowebifijolikun.pdf
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631534290.pdf
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/32884722509.pdf
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/lilogulurek.pdf
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/fufos.pdf
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109041403061582.pdf
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsqaqlcnladdd3u052a59mleuj/16084162904.pdf
    • http://ssaisarang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74266473797.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d822989b8---loxilulifod.pdf
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/xofupatatemexafuridef.pdf
    • https://snapstudios.ca/userfiles/file/fuporijodo.pdf
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/mezadimupuruwavulisaguk.pdf
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/9270063717.pdf
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/pifobotud.pdf
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/64303761778.pdf
    • http://rem-proekt.com/f/file/62492246196.pdf
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/dugurugejuzad.pdf
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/28965882690.pdf
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/xapodiradib.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d2121ea98---20283713336.pdf
    • 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_off0000f961.bin
cbf87472bac695a949ce3aca76bef02bb924de20e6aec61e949af7ae4efbff4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF961 10608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001118d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001299f.bin
dec5de26b2baa7fa49ca70df92f6066297301b2ad6241389c9b7babd5433c9fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299F 19004 bytes