Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8bcabe90d3bf567…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 18:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c12cf552ce7ca4808ad358d978d931f2 SHA-1: d55d8179479b2c5e35b539925908bca80bec6740 SHA-256: e8bcabe90d3bf567efb2ba5a7fecca63088dba70c418eb7284d473e38e36c713
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, some of which point to compromised WordPress uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into installing malicious software by masquerading as a necessary update or plugin. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/45640085130.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e09e9e97---10545817209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c16237de3e2f6d3d9a4c7df38377a95/safuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/77156294373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/sibupewusopeponegubatavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/zezoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d98a3db5781edb95d626f345c40a550/82757850654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/mikofezebofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57292679249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19927214850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/nodinerugerazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu2su8jf71nkkuk6lkbjef02i2/12652718457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3e335a285---dekizelabepazenanozutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/64470400445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81819062588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/xuduxibekewunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/diratafivimezevoxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/53005977434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/bubosarewukufapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f199570001---lokikijeluvosaduxizemizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/25889620983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/duxomojize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+photoshop+cs6+crack+dll+files+64bit+downloadPDF 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_off0000f162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF162 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 56e152b27f57d81f5026e68edb05c26ac4d0c6153c00a9738bb968e9904e424e
font_01_sfnt_off00011df0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF0 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 6fa43b12ae331f743ce605865d9f1e1198c7196add81d4a3470b3b5d23aa0d9a
font_02_sfnt_off00013833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13833 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1