Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e540ec40262de202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

442.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 487e26ec7164c375272ce53918a1517c SHA-1: 64d450b35881166ede256b98d387cf1ca2748577 SHA-256: e540ec40262de202d39fab4d33001d6ad7c30b3e63e8d3d936792002f8ef35ec
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, specifically a browser extension or update installation lure, to trick the user into executing malicious code. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggests a downloader or redirector pattern. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not meant for direct user reading but rather to facilitate the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7665

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ansys+workbench+meshing+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43599104408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/ruguxebijudavewakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/72821044061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/pagivosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8cc76e64b3---mazelelurapanomunurakuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/21635626435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/gorazawibego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopojabozogumuvuropagotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/takn1b30scbi0apt5rl7d4fhkn/6458505705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/difumozenonifozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b885476b64b---pililaroveweluvirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/41494949378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/90822665814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baybayankaauamo.com/clients/c/c9/c9e0f772d4a556598cfa564a27137582/File/dijumanujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caf7e9e288---24287815638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bbc34df4e---sijedegujawobetimunumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02779ae18323351cfea26c43d773b820/ronazajakularemuzumiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/borigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ccee7c704d---pinefuziluseluxiluguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hogan1973.com/clients/d/d4/d4eda5e2427b34f3a15374adde9a77da/File/73619024795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/zofigizejojukeripumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/18527667747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa145846b125094785cef7d91aabeb01/40577024660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/16640872723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/jesevav.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_off0006724b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6724B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00068a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A5D 20604 bytes
SHA-256: 068d1e8467b6ec668163ede9bde7b01bdb2f43946ffe2f0c6716488554de8d5b
font_02_sfnt_off0006c01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C01D 11092 bytes
SHA-256: b920b5245b46638c94dff2a9174e1fb1ccf694d937811facde6831fc900863c7