Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db38d958b2fd810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 00:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 925f3df114bad89e66ad2c75cec47d73 SHA-1: 833b347cbbd717d558435520ed56315f45f6c279 SHA-256: 3db38d958b2fd810d3fbb82c7a532d2ffc8546228e3deff72f91cc6b4cbdad5a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure, as indicated by multiple heuristics related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'neo bomberman free download', suggesting a social engineering pretext to entice users to click on embedded malicious links. The presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=neo+bomberman+free+download+for+pc+full+version PDF link annotation
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/29083651522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5eb15d701---72234364175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a8ed61884227e90a95db921e3e2062/23990037026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820e34aeab8---48944287043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-28/20210528014415306619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri492pi8sprucmdeu7u5n530mn/lufawufiketaxorapasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/wiperomavokebupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807d9ba752a---kuboxazusuzigivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/14007352246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbfe17e855111874854f127ec786372/nitenotoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/kegusovaweletebomuwupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753dfe93856---11677420893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff3cdc72f73d659899dce713e5e51f7/86655662295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ei2dop4v0mggo35h4udrq0egm/52838999140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vp4g396gm92oa80agpep45nb1b/vigukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/93048170691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8d6a3460a---31374141947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7507254e27---71410515293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancarsIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11720 3544 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4dc3b35b0e36b5f555fa365112ebc9449cb2244dfa88c18dc5a5a0db0fb52e
font_01_sfnt_off000123bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BD 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 7092c41198e9958e35a95fe82f81791a2d1eba7773d7d5e474669812fd078d09
font_02_sfnt_off000136a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A9 12440 bytes
SHA-256: 370bc2e6e4174cebb5a13cf2f5fbae59d78e46947c1bc057ca5f6b5dafbc232c