Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63859b3af24a278c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 283b92bb4d151a8720be7bab9907e590 SHA-1: ee1b5995b71cbc1f8ce2f4f552a2296003d6f2fc SHA-256: 63859b3af24a278c0331b07d83e218605566ef4abdc9e8b88b515e6e40c901c3
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users into downloading malicious content. The 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic strongly indicates a social-engineering tactic to trick users into installing unwanted software or granting malicious permissions. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ntc-container.com/upload/files/jokekovebenogumomofup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/8901991718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/bomidogoramimego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43425654650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358990ed480---96806204170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec5f02462e---soniriwugofipefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/juniwuvuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffa78d37932a4d1dda611f5bd45435f/72675385071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/63101377078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/90699801182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81150567157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/48616864867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/19457425860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/64081951535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barefoothoa.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/71214713844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebossa.pl/files/file/fifogodomubizadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/68799562697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/nogunapewudoguxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawtutors.co.uk/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83456204470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/66579108163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613097a773ae8---vudedaratofarigoxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/92655452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=king%27s+avatar+episode+1+eng+subPDF 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_off0000bb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD368 17692 bytes
SHA-256: bebceeca4bb8994ab04ce96a010c397c2e2ffce72769416bd726f234dbbf975f
font_02_sfnt_off00010110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10110 10904 bytes
SHA-256: e2f7fda2e0aa97328e6f64fc9587d4c124b32c9c058f251c00e373326d1363f0