Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf95b650454af221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ff74eff351e80f104ce4ae37fa77fd70 SHA-1: d7c943624fec71dae1c985c14a3102fe48253b2d SHA-256: cf95b650454af221cdd0bec8261484ce244bee9cb94d3de6c509e1f6edff0a43
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 identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates, a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+crashing+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/37558951502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/ruferibopomiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/lawobipifedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/49030245513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/17920087286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/pozozuwimevenedofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03j476qhe6ffnqinkl2f2rko36/fomikefobijagidifutagupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzbaosui.com/uploadfile/files/wapovixujimikamatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/1281000911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eamenfaraz.com/cache/fck_files/file/18351663126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b18d3e50a88bcdbdeb34a3af193eaee/38111192817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/51651024858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7af9e8000---jutowuzarubegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135fcf8b5f6c---33217264513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/78023240746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/xomizeterelanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a9a224a6c198b6a76e0fabb129b0b4/dopewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/ditezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/82414205547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/72658125599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29829844723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210909052103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/56657045851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/65213778161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/dijali.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_off0000f7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC1 17960 bytes
SHA-256: e966d07bcbbea6c2f018275ce436505ef1eea915ae34181faaf44fcabd409411
font_02_sfnt_off00013e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E51 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec66ad73c73e113ca5b534b329fba64ef6e9f8a44587efa1faa65cde9eb5635