Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d190e7267d865a5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 03:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6924484cdb4d0f532cc26802cdda7b3b SHA-1: 08f397919136b693fb68d0126c56be34807c48af SHA-256: d190e7267d865a5a87da1ecd71c5c303a782cc6ea93578e8ce388d8f893b4b66
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URLs point to compromised websites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or exploits. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solve+the+second+order+differential+equation PDF link annotation
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0dc3c3f17ad6dc00d7ab5c04bd5ed59/37490088389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2bc2c7a1ee6820594b524558a0aa03/ramujuguvinerasalamifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483eb45d01f3d699c4e1d3f7b1ac0ce7/83526984006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098522ed114f---bopokabiwelemubusalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e55ebb2fb7c638ede0b90c701067bd74/webakoduvijuxujebinolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8123b2a94---99977100081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhj2d0p996dnje3pvknqp66gp5/75319768333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/zotutilukogomigilogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/1906058804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/21854602451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/4754706654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876c645f9b7---wetupuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88969fe6225f7f70cd3c7ac883a3bd07/maguragenifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho1fqvri5jiiraqgscoma4a642/97386681748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1473da7f5---kudolukapapefezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56gfdspp6ijf4vtpqkt7ba910/jakapifufubugipitoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073412770c58---lapusedizetuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F4 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 1246181debb0fc9b40b3a3a091e14ff45dfbc843349fe981a24f53c89158556f
font_01_sfnt_off0001034d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034D 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 17c28c9882364e1dd370e0f402559c18f32a645925f916fd24662776389c78c3