Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ed3943c1fc80526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cddca68f415a06b9dd0650de13cf17a9 SHA-1: 185777af8f9752dc38b10618673b063b34d06fbb SHA-256: 0ed3943c1fc8052695067ea699de39390f7567491a47068ecc5cd714d6a21797
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and presents a social-engineering lure to install a browser extension or update. This is a common method for delivering malware or stealing credentials. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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
  • 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 http://traviet36.com/upload/files/65794989996.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woraduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e682df600---nusisufofaxixeduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4krichmond.org/clients/3/3b/3bf4c986be49c21931b3574e72fd8103/File/ragunafadodilobowomipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202108311123157809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com//EditorImages/file/99299813687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterani-pushkino.ru/userfiles/files/mekirumikofuxewadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/vexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba98194d341a2286fb5ac20afa5c2eb2/votol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/82184962458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/kuzelemozubefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/zixafurobugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balustrady-metalik.pl/files/wizovuvitumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/pixinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/kujololamaxerofovetoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/32538073483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragukidajefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb251e4c4f---40023468043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/puzevagapalibivoletavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26f247b94d45a103cad9b855bd9846f0/puwugofiwixuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/leruvexifamirupiwulali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/lagidomitufuwizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/43073736685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/60247311148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046bc6c8834---jopufinorekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/dopexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c49df3f4d94f369699e0c2f76aa288ec/kiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=isuzu+4hf1+workshop+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC2 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 372071c325416c4554141aa6e8100348bab43d0d05f38a8c191bdc95ca1d05cc
font_02_sfnt_off000114ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CE 18568 bytes
SHA-256: b7abb16c5cabb8ecaf72e73744f0ab0e61894044967b5fa7298a594a0b14494e