Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4132aa4dfd761a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:27:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e1205ae70c933c4bb4fd853688ffe23a SHA-1: d212f1080ca4e7211b71dbb0d5322b00bbfc705f SHA-256: d4132aa4dfd761a0b80d8bd149c85154e4a98365b2031f4d118fe27f8225c14e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a social-engineering lure to trick users into installing browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/3567335613.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/negabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210906174626_1725949564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98e397137207166a93e237040a82109/gufatabelativejilagaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/gelimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301267c299b---regoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/89630925425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3080706839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/29575484383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/60667562541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d599ee5f8c69ebaea36d61b6fc158201/69116615175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/tekapuzijamafokaxevejava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/23673127445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b7c643974---9277899920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/8728447593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/10193886878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/95266205393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/degasonosodawasilapaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/pijebitisefulukesomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0175ffbde40d53f4bf4458c8d22b367/jefanewurobebodadated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/jopubutixaxexajalobikosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/6129473886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/88458626988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/datonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dark+theme+android+chromePDF 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_off0000c108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC108 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 1151c32fa78d4de4ea25addceae5a850878eb20ae9568659f7d70f2c690ec567
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C3 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 0351befb21138a0c2b8a7c27af0a84530ff3b9355d120dfd6cb2f7744c1727bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001054b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1