Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d79d61123fe446e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:15:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3ff949a3b93360ffebbe18edfd391fbd SHA-1: 2825f91ae84e0d6e9b1441442db17416fa076b02 SHA-256: d79d61123fe446e6c68b87b259447c1b1ce9658e9ac4218b84f336e88b6cd32a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and malware distribution lure. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. Numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=copy+and+paste+table+from+pdf+to+powerpoint PDF link annotation
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/mivekogejofowoveropobilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad872791474---zufonupofasufikotufupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64d7c0c60b---37644868914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/xidegagexaguvodogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/4904113387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kosojisezogatanaperiwivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/fewoxexebapana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felenitekotikujeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/65950119594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-08-18/6a2cf46f85a0894f5468fbbc7375307c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selekereworufopugaduvimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df6ada98ce---fakoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/80938661249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7679631ad52389708257a79ae87c60/1646251481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/7582587415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/vabejureli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalybm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625871573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/62361063193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/novex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/25697015605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9289b5abd4---pisisalesogupafitutilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/80984013047.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_off0000d20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20A 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 13b823f66fb2f887917814bcb8ca91d58806c96c0c8033553c507f43c2df6374
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC9 11028 bytes
SHA-256: e5b7fae448df7f7248cd0aa9a0cd71995f6583130949391e28ec0b5528883bf5
font_02_sfnt_off00011751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11751 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1