Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ffde9ad2c170cb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 13:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc459d6f290d0561d6585f704211c43a SHA-1: f2b3f870351053e20e3e8252e5f7b5918e98ead9 SHA-256: 0ffde9ad2c170cb47edfdc3a2b743f8ff90fa5fd41bf3819f42bd602139f139a
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic strongly indicates a social engineering tactic to prompt the user into downloading and executing malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a6fa7a88917b1594f38be0299fd836d/4372815962.pdf
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/jafuvixubu.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/rumeweporugi.pdf
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/44951983667.pdf
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/pujotuwo.pdf
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31097971466.pdf
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13596727607.pdf
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73e15aef3---rejap.pdf
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/pitoguwudivazudig.pdf
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210808164540.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdce7uk5jr82ub0oahes016ts6/96211122151.pdf
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96175626743.pdf
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/35884319696.pdf
    • http://armanetti.com/images/48778020364.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/suwenuwomutopijotolul.pdf
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/97410832941.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu97l5elo6nvg8m1v13lo4gb5u/zanasazopuximozifut.pdf
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/76227490011.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fa238fce7---nurowakaxa.pdf
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/37340795722.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8361055b01ccbba122906ce9ddcca954/pigejatiwojurojowusexobe.pdf
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/95236528750.pdf
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/mijogilujetijiwaga.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=bigasoft+video+er+serial+key+free+download
    • 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_off0000f6cf.bin
cf41d036990fe3f951bb2460fde831370e02fddb73a6b20a17132c1cd002b6b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CF 17440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012481.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12481 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c98.bin
1163bb2fe27b9c7518d3f0666d0de792fb94bcaa6bfff22dc72daf5732bbcc0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C98 10940 bytes