Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 998fce9bd5725f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 21:18:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 73d7326b705770ff8c5ce868fbf0e6e3 SHA-1: a2750dd67ba140b59aa55caf1412c792579895b7 SHA-256: 998fce9bd5725f0bc39d66c9d5315cbd14cec115f886dc061ce3acb8f4382133
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document actively tries to trick the user into installing something, likely a malicious browser extension or update. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, with the latter identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a social engineering attack leveraging external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+home+android PDF link annotation
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/tevusezafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/27847061505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/7245310051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/63060126556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/44352855124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/8874743861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/77665318098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1631457437zanetatusulezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/36234007764.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://najlepsietorty.sk/uploads/fck/file/14367657684.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e573675ace---sanekepunusejupexexiwuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fececa044---30773306414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/kinavopupezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7e6b70c23a3ee48579640de3bb4ab21/50354605959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/rutodurujefumarepusudime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtosfera28.ru/userfiles/file/rufadole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k489nfhpp7kjc9qave5nc7tnph/malukegonilimenonikotejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021091417363370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaamir.ipixpms.com/Rapport/public/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siweberuwutufudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/52031245469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/210901131009087835v65de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/retunagatuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23c2866572f19fa75dde92c76308eff8/58327228341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8602682488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegopazagusaposekaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/74213153697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.cIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000f571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF571 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 3a13f75c397ab5e0c51a9239c1d837b04bc1ceb9e14bc02815631c466c704613
font_01_sfnt_off00010c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12441 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 08841de7f47ab30361a0cf13b85ccb2766f8f30754831ba3d262ff74975fa6c2