Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0778dbdf6be15e1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2b772e1416acc72537294d284fa819df SHA-1: 8666296d1c44ece4f80f2e799b24f0a8db45ddb3 SHA-256: 0778dbdf6be15e1f9ad0b7262abdc1fb0fa62b6d623ef9062f153762a14a534f
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it uses a social-engineering lure to trick users into installing browser updates. The document contains numerous external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm used to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest potential exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+man+in+the+middle PDF link annotation
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/japepamixejigekuxewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/41455820225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/megupuxumeduvenixudenoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/zojelulikopulasusebuwerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090902535273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47765135338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup4.com/contents/files/xadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugubefotozoruwodexaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolaniprojects.com/userfiles/file/14268654538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20219211144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/10554287923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25b84fb965788555ebf70b37f999b7f8/zabato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/tasobajamasoromerilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decoworld.in/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/tozefazavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/39353266015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/burizepupuxugifebejoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/ponukeditixujutupajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50929189186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab71d9ae6a4003e3c9e75dd8191fb40e/4751919966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/14254886973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/28721033913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/8617932246.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_off0000ef3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10756 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 3589bcb8bdef7ccb0cd4cfd345711af288f317f89239a11e6c454902ac2691db
font_02_sfnt_off00011e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E54 17560 bytes
SHA-256: c70b32326f264d33f8fe2ad6ca3828148a4f397dd0e7f9978e9053667e08535c