Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f157cf0566b977c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 00:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2668a3f349ac88f6aa10e8c5c3c7b86a SHA-1: 44fbd9770926564e1b24e6d62f5cd06c440514e8 SHA-256: f157cf0566b977c129fe4e3b20c72c85e14f7a1131497084aac8843b90e53e9a
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript and the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest it is designed to lure users into downloading malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into installing a fake browser update or extension.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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 https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/58957802405.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90aed8c3083d03ccadd9a8c427f0f8b/rezetux.pdf
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/83920389616.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb0e3d796f730bd1a0b9c92c7e726e2d/mowarovolanodikabuxuturaz.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b70eab610---7470726047.pdf
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/58327210555.pdf
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/zokarej.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqdr9cp4snip140hhe8tl45ol2/62340969478.pdf
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/sotizokenesi.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080af90623c6---62994642631.pdf
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/mopasebenusumabajivite.pdf
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/tovaxibuwufinosigusirofu.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/zibaremefezoganonojoman.pdf
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3fc062e7---87119049041.pdf
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/kavuluniwi.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20eb75ca1bfced7319ecee17517e70bc/964060216.pdf
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/zukubeverep.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/tizefoxuxuritanudabog.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+ubuntu+32+bit+terminal
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea95.bin
850462b79d28e2584fdeb1b94604d20964025f8db3547e5a9d06856d2a6a35b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA95 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010338.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10338 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4a.bin
aaee0c3fb14fd5555c890c9c3b5fee9604c8f92b9a890a7ea6231cf014f8480b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4A 19148 bytes