Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9284d6d4a3ac919…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 06:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2777906cd72325eef45286ce2a7c43af SHA-1: e36134197e2f7aff7ba968a7f6bf3761f2e97797 SHA-256: f9284d6d4a3ac919a5efc887e7e6e5eb9ee70394fcafb0432e8d829591d41f12
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that employs a social engineering lure to prompt the user to install a browser extension or update. This is a common tactic for credential harvesting or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect the user to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613197a1f1dfa---31820923626.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jumbfhae1s5t8u2pd1tb9i9qb0/31619059868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a53c1eef89521af8d195740b6f72472/26232996523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeongwonenc.com/userfiles/file/gulafawigozemadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodnest.info/tctt/sites/aaa/file/37415794472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/nimezapawamobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/pavupitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/35301672246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/52670005758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotutovobamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321d75723a3---giduripogiruwedofevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/wemagadezakuruxezekorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/62984883869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/pabofuwogosipakuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60001131840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/62279143044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/lemewijafusuzuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/72470273306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4e4652d8f---40734282897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/poromuxigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonedajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejiya.com/userfiles/file/59392547789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/13023104567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/49702113274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+chromePDF 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_off0000f756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF756 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 91a76ee8932ba7faf7d6d7dc18ca1bf8227c3f87a2a50aaa2d9ebb8b83174f1b
font_01_sfnt_off000125ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EA 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 60be7bce44743b4e0b5a721b81a9e7454383ee3ba15a4a7b886e82c14ed4599c
font_02_sfnt_off00013db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1