Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3cdbe3700286cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:16:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9cac15b5a47a40818da1c8a4ed389edb SHA-1: 204498f6255d9074219be1339db1d4bea82f47c7 SHA-256: f3cdbe3700286cc50bb237325027cc1c670b3abe7bea383cae6666dc8a36ddeb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, directing users to external URLs that likely host malicious content or exploit kits. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests a social-engineering tactic to prompt the user into installing unwanted software or extensions. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, further supports this assessment. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the lure indicate a high likelihood of a multi-stage attack involving exploitation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+android+blue+check+mark PDF link annotation
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/32423249864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/74893067621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/1232132338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/23008365321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/22118435064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/96257629630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdgvtdp2d4161ckdnhghcod8f0/vubotamatujilapele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/5509854001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/50283230081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613651846d184---2151917590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/vivakogevozubuwazudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/nobevaluxexage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17vr7j9grmp1javq69refit0r/24250931376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/36225864086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/20316521319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirmatas.com/userfiles/file/56039124655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090717490591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/desusibafubesifimata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/54539046111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f80b9de85---40746917204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasubepukatugobigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61757745095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75842874239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede461a454b88de4aa5ea12e83a2b395/35641576592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazduire-domeniu.com/UserFiles/file/judizu.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_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 01484beffcfe8106188d0d8fca643821dbf5fe82c10a12676495861a5df5cb88
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAF 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 54b9f7e389e35f70bc58117f965b9388f2e2f02d37e6627e6e0aeb2567f9314a