Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c3364cd9c555117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ee77dde90eb3f05df7b5f41e22452a14 SHA-1: f1030be5f502f79f77439889aa16947c598d1ee1 SHA-256: 0c3364cd9c5551174c216747f700474673ee8b0fbd8dc1080b013cb6d8316873
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS uploads, likely serving as a lure to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links suggest it's designed to exploit user trust to download and execute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/6239209861.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce263dc247a1c80ff6a286e443f2e637/1422372951.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbcbf684c3e241c9a46a56d2fc9998d3/zozogixegaruzigukuvuponu.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac15afd119cb1f378b94270ed4ecd720/buladofomogu.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8d042d7ce---57429056781.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081aa5884183---xebumidaxavexeroriber.pdf
    • http://sumbulefendiegitimvakfi.com/resimler/files/bunasesixixobeviv.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7p86sm5bj8i340hbl006irufd/38011277134.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqlcgrahm81ocbtfthvaafuu75/fumezesato.pdf
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3b846040f72a59094a69f10a474195/49621297095.pdf
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/naxejedefenipitoxiki.pdf
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/41162298612.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d402e6183---fufinitimajelijin.pdf
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/52562664579.pdf
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2bri2ha966pqina8vo0v2muue6snomf/35454828904.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=spontaneous+intracranial+hypertension
    • 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_off000143a9.bin
c852c24f3a5f4b40579ea8baeb483c67373d4430044e78187b088b583fb6302c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143A9 10760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015c5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C5F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017471.bin
a62d79638ebaf60350ce96ce816a02d83cfd0701328cd3cf780ec147b7e826d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17471 19628 bytes