Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 412d25dbfbba7ef4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3ec5f97b1328f386fcf56a0cb9f679e0 SHA-1: 6995e1a9af56f52ad0cc5bde8174158c8d807207 SHA-256: 412d25dbfbba7ef45fc1e80d8b48f300a4bf50fa089082844f88d52a40df1f81
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lure and the presence of numerous external URLs suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+present+tenses+test+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufidakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/lofulorotagifinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cccef17f298---97261855228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec3d1d5c00dddc8257a9938f3d1d548/68151561421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/20755538493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/mumenotesofupofukifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd221111a8---56439307374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/rikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811998e7b4f---21617970851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inica.org/files/file///4669023942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypcalumni.com/clients/2/24/24042806289e0d450134266962f0a0d8/File/boxutowaluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/35833538521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/zoxamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pa33uhqrp9o23q5feta6npt7t/widofukupusade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1171fe769e5029606e0848c17aaf0a2b/sisiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/tupixemerumolimilesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4de2653d8---woxisokowebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sms-dk.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_C971981D56DD4ED9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/logeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/63031003175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuich7u02rktvem6gh6u4njobn/xibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/wolatamurigotopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60865e3d3424b0b286dfb6828ac414b6/gafamevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d666uvhklkv0ifjumv0m6bob70/xobel.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_off0000d0ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EA 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 409c1231a80d6d63fa2be71305e21430c5835ff2fda7b8140dfad57f070623a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE887 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10099 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 80c5d115ae068a97b34d7924497d138d8115a485fe8fd7176cd99df635e7b025