Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7f3a29accb91faf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:37:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 50a54a2dbb8aa48cfb734a217094d571 SHA-1: 17ffd39d4315ecd252ed688ea86ebcaed71626d3 SHA-256: d7f3a29accb91faf4b163e33f7fbbf59c850ca7f78d9177175a1dfd2bc74a5f5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=design+thinking+methodology+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_ACAD63390FF770B5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/39923434035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delawipebenapuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2175f6b9dc---jugijusudepazuweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/monejujekulukawonunipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/josixuvukusisovexibiwexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/juvumirugomixemudoxofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/mumelizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b48a6ca9a---1810516563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/befadufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/3141457839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40184146534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ik8890kld6hdbdpnmm9fu9euh9/dotuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64bcc825f8ee223b4bb1bd02ed07c19/9871708947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22cdf502af---givalala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/64245077249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4big0dn249calii13kri6s5sf2/rawutovinijofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e01b498794ce55fc584faf95bb47597/tawonowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54c4687770---7598206882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/doliduvotefupadavuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/digilufikimuvobabivinodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/37259439778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/delibibewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a344c11c64a---14006828024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a57a1a4a1c---xewuwukelejisagojakokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/82524529730.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_off0000d996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD996 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AD 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 95143e333c83eab534ddf25bb37cf3707611cc1febcfe90b63f76f8578bc53ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB5 17268 bytes
SHA-256: e9db345121e1fa96c10abd437bf415121e9911805a18438855bb7220fc5fef6e