Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3dca72b8c463d10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e82c8929fa2b016af24fa63c238a7266 SHA-1: 3aa4b89cdd0230b5032d7a7a8cb3288ebbd0b14a SHA-256: f3dca72b8c463d10521bc926caa6e1af225ad4413d9afc7efd00075f9af67df9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The primary attack vector is a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content, which is a common method for credential theft or malware installation. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it acts as a downloader or redirector to malicious sites, potentially leveraging JavaScript for execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/wavixufenebona.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xevuwesasomafegidokikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613203f0dcacd---45483264120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingcall.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89799697117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79289357807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/68101088050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coca-colalife.eu/userfiles/file/bebinowadajugirasirafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/94849254438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/11121142212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jca1pn0i6rm7kpl7ev2a6irm2/51971700479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/20032805822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/domusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109070205218620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/64498534984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/tesomizulejozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/44175380361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/42958031132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614529860292c---matamaxakolepupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95920475625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/34968007048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/goped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeinstlucia.com/userfiles/files/gezovozezuzexeparunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///retuvakekizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popazinemutarigakobomesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/60424536436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telesson.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/48950296401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+scene+creator+9PDF 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_off0000e485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE485 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 5b4099097685a260c9ecabb720f03695aeab958890f49b34437b62b67a507c2b
font_01_sfnt_off00011154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11154 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001296b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296B 10420 bytes
SHA-256: f60b6d444d7f14a25a0c3cc9610227395b6497e3003cf2365180570e095bcf8e