Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb6e3b1caed20e45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:16:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0d806d1ae9ba1ee0e635ad79d4ffd34a SHA-1: 542808248a5604a611c900c38d40cc67b2e92b3f SHA-256: fb6e3b1caed20e459914de4840e3b7b4f72ee47d704124a8720c0d2eb2c3415f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic indicates a social-engineering attempt to trick the user into installing malicious software. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/gumuxufojojosam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marupi.de/UserFiles/File/vizoxosiwabizatemurizobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/39744287378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356daa59961---53666034675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87886499932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoastlist.com/userfiles/file/83656863850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/5482281492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fd641318f---xomuwozoxudotubawinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/suganinorodogutovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/jebapaxobidemavamabejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/50062648373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajulurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/61728939066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollnas.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/lijepuvepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp9kmev4l90lafhd7ntvg0as9p/viwumebomujawexiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wic-net.com/userfiles/file/50315960455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wokipuwakofubiwobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130584fcd25f---kelalatodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/mikefaxeliset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/31253052098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/68325855424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123flower.doweb.kr/upload/files/75165761155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff9f7b2996b56abd2e75a78c8110eac/xukejavumuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/lowobukugimubabofajobubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/gopuzimirisukedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a1370281fba6e00ce153d3f5e5ce9e/kamulojikiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/zivukudaroranapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mod+of+amazon+primePDF 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_off0000f5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D7 18140 bytes
SHA-256: a9d70d819c73852aa6133bbde013da06ea96c66411a0c2b5a22a332c4e5d1960
font_01_sfnt_off0001250f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1250F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D26 10400 bytes
SHA-256: bac01bca5b72ff05ca5c9be75ba6720463186787072b9324cade072de7342420