Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d74ef81c8dfc16fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

157.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 19:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 5e5cd44630b7568e99a0453788bdcca1 SHA-1: 30b1423dc781d4b95606db0e137ba9e46242ddb2 SHA-256: d74ef81c8dfc16fa368b0492a4696c99074fff854750f89f3ad1259ae22b35a8
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple high-risk heuristics, including a ML classifier flagging it as malicious and ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' and a 'Password-protected archive handoff' suggests a social engineering attack aimed at tricking the user into downloading and executing a payload. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm used for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9698

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbeb3528171d5ef269727bce624dd3c/9811647889.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/70309284623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f91c511d---xabifadidoxawavitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ml0q8pbc3mdk2ik2enpgqfk7/vipibejixupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/70562225599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1191dca06db78b9b04dd3dde52257aa7/femarowovabenarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgdd8ip1s3938i9pouoacngvj7/tuvukumatebinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mgtg664suknnco6p1hh7armk6/26676623846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/82869612865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/38610973648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093383c25498---kokinonuzekutojaxuparamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e91137daa7---sorafife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8674a2b4a0379dbd283ece63b1c3406f/43317257464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f1bee9072---retolenanitopili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c23f69199e---rukofomolupepunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/59642194306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/71917466840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.typoland.com/http://www.typoland.com/designers/Lukasz_Dziedzic/CopyrightIn PDF document text
    • http://www.typoland.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+ultraman+rebirthPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001db9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DB9B 3188 bytes
SHA-256: 23f9cd5eddb878671201ffe75cbe07489023b677a0fc13fedc790e9a120abe2b
font_01_sfnt_off0001e6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E6E2 6168 bytes
SHA-256: 8fa5fc47f1c4d577ade0a12cf104f8d2f5d8331d2d553a120b9eeba46afd7401
font_02_sfnt_off0001f684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F684 4792 bytes
SHA-256: 144e9eea50c5071adf93a911ddd21ae082577d262c8f9827b7446d8ff6cad939
font_03_sfnt_off00020690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20690 10160 bytes
SHA-256: c8b1821cc41caacfc017849247c286b7294b426b80d61cdd5deeee47920778ac
font_04_sfnt_off00022304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22304 12984 bytes
SHA-256: 67519138726de3dfc2e4f5a7624c6fc558e7f5e6b679508cde166750e4b7ae2c
font_05_sfnt_off00024f15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24F15 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 53938e0c64519a261050c940a83d383a737b17b8ae466810cd9e5f06ff23ab7d