Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9bc030901dbcc34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 10:37:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1fc10bc52902a0d9fc3005fcea1ccb7 SHA-1: bca40cc38745a1006c469c9953ad9746b1ed4c8c SHA-256: f9bc030901dbcc34bc4040b58487d0879ed92ed18146bd4ca754b90a47e62d15
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document likely exploits a PDF vulnerability to deliver its payload or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojalevavixemabenisuraf.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a05c0aa48a1619d8b9cebdb7205b79/daguzologubimu.pdf
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/82770902680.pdf
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51094264591.pdf
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77470152429.pdf
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109031032313313.pdf
    • https://fanaf.org/article_ressources/file/turabatabijizajutuwemixed.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28188f86309fcdfd9524280ba2660374/retolutedarizok.pdf
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/1167205209.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8666433e8---xupuweki.pdf
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/mujafuxad.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/422865e94cf004eb3602ace3cc371ad5/91189391152.pdf
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/17189851828.pdf
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/16634368573.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/67645168605.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ffa2595274797337cc2a361572afc3a/2607025871.pdf
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133252bb6be0---52442134628.pdf
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/71510558863.pdf
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109050122458397.pdf
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/86769304778.pdf
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1630559244.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf5482cc4e---gamevujuwaluvubiw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=happymod+cash+app
    • 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_off00011a1e.bin
0695643673b7387510510ad19a3ed41973e58dc6df90439bfbbe44a4756d0414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 10312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013151.bin
c4785f779d3114cfb02c28cd0eeca930de82942224068b4d744e07c91e24ac2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13151 18640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016110.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16110 16792 bytes