Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3c0bc224743e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 9ea650995c5c24f773b7f58a12e03069 SHA-1: 95753ec1ed6a12bdf291bbdb08bdddcd79bc5255 SHA-256: dc3c0bc224743e4eede1c3537f933721ed4745fc1575eadc71864b40d31dd4de
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it uses a link farm on potentially compromised or disposable hosting, and specifically employs a social engineering tactic to lure users into installing browser extensions or updates. This is a common method for credential theft or malware installation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/06/16/nanozuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5fd97f4aef795164ddbf344a7adc6b2/59798472852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/wilobifafoxujatamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/57750373896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da94ef38f8e---sofidanepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/22135488442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/73957291648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095baee27d33---14683735524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/kujakujekaritov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/21477085076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7650abb5af2a992ffe77dec8ef2e03ee/34941376760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamisonfurnace.ca/userfiles/files/49279025086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b907ce1fbc4---98239228089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/loxeronirafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7f6f404947387db05cb2ce79eb97de/susitujezuxabasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90904598822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a40a316b0---jusasevolipazotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/64956718571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rb2vk1v8udq1q4eb471llkpcf/jijirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210814_121807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062018341073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/wopedejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geljmcqinn8h50u3e96la3oeh5/43831919664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161030a19e098f---pinexukegeweselet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sight+words+for+kinder+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000da20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA20 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 4618f16f012bc9e95c00809dcfbc575219ac811ad6d0343c616a570bc33e946c
font_01_sfnt_off0001096f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12186 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 0583c1460b65cb2a4a89f1914b1a812e5ba10ceddb2aaa149bbb92a82dc04bb6