Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd00ca544dc12c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 88e2c21dcdcfe315c028e67d178891ce SHA-1: 9e86c7bad4d17f5f6d9e31b4c89d17c010e561fe SHA-256: 0cd00ca544dc12c42ccf555ec6cfe7e125be6efdda5d567d55f3e9b39c83387d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a social engineering lure to trick users into installing browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/45154815869.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/93050025195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82237208660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/4961971144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2a8181802---revotevago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8senhkpe01s1tf8u70svujbcc4/13978443477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/84806222760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe6c524b72---lexonetevasefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbe616a0a3---80900720215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumovoxaribaxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/mefurowakamulamupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/34735170532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalarlojistik.com/userfiles/file/sofuvitogujosovofuvoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345d031de70---95824005982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ce096e85a---relak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munolevawarele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/64093604197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143dfefe7859---paxilopuwidupomifexapovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210904045058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlejia.com/uploadfile/files/20210910_085645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/vanozipunomenimeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a774152265---vifelabapufuwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/sifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/narutuwovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/79094860243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+genymotionPDF 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_off0000d838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD838 17240 bytes
SHA-256: ca6e3d9742ebd333d4a08888112b694b8b58d9f4e988b78a9847307bb5fdbc64
font_01_sfnt_off00010526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10526 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3D 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 5b1b1a12d272287eb696c017e69e4ab7fb7213979a897f9f4f9ee4b1dafe1fe4