Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e99a6ff6936b5d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d6dfdc3ec6a9643b211769ecbe729ff2 SHA-1: 2703691cad504d30756e46155820dea2d988c288 SHA-256: 3e99a6ff6936b5d47a6808615d346855dfbfc9f0ce2c03a78ec074e26e538332
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests the document is designed to trick users into installing harmful software by posing as a necessary browser update or extension. Numerous external URLs were found, many pointing to compromised websites or link farms, likely used to host or redirect to malicious payloads.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+grammar+practice+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/60828965200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/lezafunowaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/sejadoseboselenoledogapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/62610586315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/pinosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63sitq2tqsasa7dgm4otqd5onj/44624588618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripuvokala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.com/userfiles/file/69043184713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacituran.com/userfiles/file/kapirazexomuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/rumedare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegekebawifawidurolinisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/172236022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a8784d1f4---99874461558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/5782363987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136145245f2d---15420588217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/34172407193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jevalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimubuniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0cob9rc8kbrpfj60fc9at57dm/51288862781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/53998780824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902204832817674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/jivupotujore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/25742595709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/57925432257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lananovobapo.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cfdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDB 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 09deffc3c6f58fbbf26b89864d448b766f21b2e773bb07c0ab5c61236bebba2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001155c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155C 10932 bytes
SHA-256: f36a73633d8301cc5b51344e74695933a30b549d1c26adadaf5ae264cb9b1175