Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4390b282d4b5041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: dd3f7fbe6c6f9d66c35f1e861e6857ff SHA-1: edac980d8ed8a7ab342057a7ea842a95e617dc9a SHA-256: c4390b282d4b50418fe1476dc37b78ad02c2b6c215fb0841a7e2507fe6ffbd63
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses a browser extension installation lure, a common social-engineering tactic to trick users into downloading malware or divulging credentials. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest it aims to facilitate further compromise, potentially through a malicious download or redirect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/kebixuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33756259842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///28267487085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/85225318639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/34530445845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/wasugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memivovelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/rejiwepirutesosegilowosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/76457198939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/26089786986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/18142878613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnutf4pfotn7l8c6fqpslcr2h4/lazigufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q16cg64ti8isslqtl6sh3b0st4/87389062388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/romevomuvumurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/75359874571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109061944238565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92716931860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93816705775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80715452807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/bigipopivopilaluzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210910062032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da81411e4e---pedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/gamuzararajokekejopexilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+rid+of+system+update+notification+androidPDF 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_off0000e8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D8 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1d31acaa182281164c7adc7e8c89fe8314d4246687d87acf929ec77a817a6a
font_01_sfnt_off000102f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0B 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 513f600f44dd868069b83c4093a8e3e18050a2b05882d48434ae2da7f9410751