Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9bc17feeb4a42c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e3e3aba4468ad3a6a8f7b95629b44353 SHA-1: fc73a58dff89f9d60053822debad4ff6764744f4 SHA-256: d9bc17feeb4a42c35168c8b9dfc9b9507049f32fad25ad67427853fee86f84f6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document employs a social-engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content. This is a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm used for distributing malicious content or phishing pages. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c7089c56b99deb4d8bd793748a0bcb/fijakej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scmel2rl8jiu6qqr6vgsfatd36/55694021395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210604020129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/84722183069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/77817815827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a29ffeafaa---69147564703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bddf99d2b1d39d4148d02a5cb44e7a11/19389216630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aht326eq8ejl3ql2n04bakaq0v/24760735752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bpl1md6fgtdia8o25sdo4kqdu/60431714825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/72804052973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609106fb44dec---diwebipesogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanegarrett.net/userfiles/file/84931136456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bea09e66c0---safasuworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/41261421154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/tomiwogozizesululikofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowalstwwo.pl/public/cms/images/file/tiwopabenosofidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f31904c43c4---zowefofivukoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/ropeminofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dl6h88r2qcikaijcd67v3531f/kirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fa2e5a2b8---kakowuxejizaxigawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aphiukuv8uua3f2vlvv2tmq446/fomukajixiponugisexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/21433882525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodugnani.it/userfiles/files/mapetefetifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/sajomogepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cladograms+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000fe0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11621 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 9247d45937901a1549263c6b0efd1f85c02e4f172ecfe86cb09e579df7084265
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC5 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 61be42184428bb4882016b0d49b2beba28b88a8f55c8b661d74af094d9865373