Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 304071889c0d372e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 37e86cf971447311554e4ff5b524c0a8 SHA-1: f14028dd0c4606b823720807aac872c0eb6ad93b SHA-256: 304071889c0d372e68a7f142b2d01d389b9c27b8e8b057959888cd2ec209fdc5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content encourages users to install software, a common social engineering tactic. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rovizijojagosomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/43008168056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/37327242347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/68015819591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077631f4c037---benetotobarogomulaviwavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/rolokewutepazujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/11096687111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/bonegudiwukenox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotacri.com/userfiles/files/sivowapiravijajuzabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/19910978109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/fezulupifixonelitepemogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81184e429666e5f5dbc7a84770c18df4/koxebilelakifuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifc3e74qmfnhbfaifbf2f350v2/xabagopatekumivopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d50396122---86949853250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c4bc6f2b1---zutogojabobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/bipilokawamuzipugapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d273e3c4fd---pixikopipaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3e005a086---fomazelosamozidogutavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/38476824435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/jekiwuwomefopizekuxepomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/88354725999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/xelopupikakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=psiphon+apk+for+iphonePDF 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_off0000e36f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36F 17856 bytes
SHA-256: bc848e67a371a97aa792025be03ff43f82634cdd077fdda312d54ea2fefaf827
font_01_sfnt_off00011272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11272 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 24cc90d4ae90628d1f7d24caef1e049afed1499b005f327d80daa91c28127661
font_02_sfnt_off000129f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1