Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c552db27e79ab4f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 17:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 23cff9a6b84729b67e311c17c0290db6 SHA-1: b440e9876286da31d611fa99052217a2816fd7d5 SHA-256: c552db27e79ab4f3cb175a4dbb1b5d32ace537c7957b2c928aee10e5b1f9a202
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update, a common method for distributing malware or stealing credentials. The embedded URLs and link farms point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, further indicating malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+chrome+extensions+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/37689152160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajiwenozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47996673252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29452350883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/dojegobufedoximalejowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d5d4d0aec8d74802976e8022ec4dff/13289421676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451baa063ad---93880430723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthikhoacaocap.vn/upload/files/busugasutamudomigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210924102723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a424e79578---ponosopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/5452260601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99173372314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokapriz42.ru/userfiles/file/6620244467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/zaroburikopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.nl/userfiles/file/wevemitufamuxezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/wafazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svilia.restavracia02.com/userfiles/file/22601140372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/41486553348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/3328854940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b5298bd3f2---guxunipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suitianhose.com/uploadfile/files/varegogopotuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/23/xovenusetemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/nanexubunawosagolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigosarchitects.gr/userfiles/file/gamagiduwajujukukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB402 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC19 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 282462ef5d7b2d494a885232176d07192177d923a3d29b49b7d7cdebb6ed1f67
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DA 15232 bytes
SHA-256: 71a71a513d44d9ce60723c57919ce98ec04a7ecd532cd50770567f07fb398d2f