Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbc4168b9ef8b48f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ea51cb94f66e410f4c5a68a1c64da4d3 SHA-1: 73a1583d31ba55088cdd5e678cffbe2ad4551542 SHA-256: fbc4168b9ef8b48f2258722c353f64dd9d4dd8cc139321f2469159516c7e840b
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests the document is designed to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. Numerous embedded URLs point to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as download locations for secondary payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+vitalsource+to+pdf+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13305429308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/wifefadapolobamiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbde5e24bce---34354252399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18345259784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/18720006540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47223413683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610312e942220---terafakaviluvodinemoreleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3eaeaa203379c3e46ea0296780477ab/babiputeratuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85849c141a---99433843219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/4726732201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64786ec2d8---pusegosubikururepazazini.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/20216284528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25c2e43f67408a1be957a92ad5c938a/zalotose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f49282364bf---44179982270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/kotigapixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/74438126020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigep60s-ncbeta.com/clients/44785/File/bijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477fc021d5b5c825f9a6c03f368ac761/nodokajibutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/tutegegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisudiredarumozudixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/9657653352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk1rt1sj7tpd3pjk015bdmi2kn/93267262892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93C 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 1a115b38a4c825d13794ca4f715420145e5e7a8e652149d9045d9d0d521b8204
font_01_sfnt_off00010259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10259 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6B 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 388394775038bb8d58890af688b5f6cc2fef7508edab5d6bb1e66088f2a22588