Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c17697513af334…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b596d810d6f2d080071ffe239340a79 SHA-1: 80036de9fb3822f05f79ec4c773deafeabc30e38 SHA-256: 12c17697513af334403df2e168f6b5196d08fe50623d185b793a88ea1efc110f
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it uses a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or steal credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/vozunatetuvuvukinix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/juxapoluvusijinoduxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/19139506635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/53589817967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linavijeraxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/wevujusarupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lanelamomodiwimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opgzvh.hr/upload/file/rudexekubifoxujotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d68b7bc0d3fe09b134c0a82357123bf0/62164610100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76129398754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--76-6kca8aqc6c.xn--p1ai/pic/userfile/45968439765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kstraders.com/userfiles/file/mikulekojevani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/30710944037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roarmysecurity.ro/mm/file/43149082635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/94248133875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozmetikadunakeszi.hu/userfiles/file/42029581093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songdolandmarkcity.com/userfiles/file/7385865496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/girobedebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144121e2435a---59718805176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/kurosiluzolagezinigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74857449795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/gawefebemerabobigadafedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/39958302879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/56540767881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=save+to+pocket+chrome+androidPDF 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_off0000dd4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4A 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 0da0a1bf49cb897e6af444a81383ffaf0f6aea847b07adbcb499f006b5cab50e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FC 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 39ddade16f89cb05a814af6a67296e72aa527024202ddce03f0a5f80fad9e78f
font_02_sfnt_off000123a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1