Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8387d1937253b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d2c5588748736e704650a86ee565eff SHA-1: 55d270e9c782e49f1cb774b62953a15a1cde244c SHA-256: ca8387d1937253b7482266b9f749b8595dad7ec67d5a0aa8b39557614061aa56
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains multiple links to external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a fake browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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=heating+and+cooling+curves+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b06c1e4d6---bukajanuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e38721e0a---10431047871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78441391509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/nakozedojazumumutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/52466606537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/guvozezepukobelisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/5291163567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/83654028430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/927b30ee30c8fb90421e3b7e7fb76153/8488777673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/75192350727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc48afd9326b4b456494ad4ba432c50/26411322438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/mopujaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/vixogozesalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/331147122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995717c3790---visezosapezowasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/ramejosanidonalupapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/27085791892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3c8563e31---91391875380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cautrucpalang.vn/webroot/img/files/75149809879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123635079382---pelofugavorano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc30e38ce2b9f636ef639a0f7edd601c/8688862781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/pizemuredaf.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_off0000d20f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20F 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 3bff2657ea0cf4faa501fa7a12b3a087a01a78c97e520f8217b7d6d033c8e45f
font_01_sfnt_off000102a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB9 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 51c44fe3c8f2c99cb377b5563ac0f779b68740ca89024595b9eb87392d260167