Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14b395486d237a33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:23:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 80618e496cdcf7567523383faf65cd25 SHA-1: 92c4b010d6478e13a65aafd0d84753806d1d0c09 SHA-256: 14b395486d237a33c2cdea18ff40be059e7342e1f3d4074dfc7eb995d4ffb782
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, with one URL explicitly mentioning 'wattpad premium hack apk', indicating a lure for potentially harmful downloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/2863880782.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/dojepunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/vewizolozemofizazobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/84729849094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/tubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5089c88350f944ce8b940679d1f54652/dexezedazebeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/22656286560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/32857021484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/lazewigidurixilarofegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341aacb77d4---10333567234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/feremefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/11142909685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/16671261746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/galurusitexaraxupamebuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/siwuwomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/somojamidixiraxovibunixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirebivugepanuwavulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/77224646136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclaw-effatha.pl/grafiki/file/84044586316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109010526261130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/24913948419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/76094899561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903023508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/najawojeluzimipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=wattpad+premium+hack+apkPDF 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_off0000e456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE456 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 9153a58b9fcc8217415a88cfabe6f6dac9d2522aa49ae16c82a2f93590731c5a
font_01_sfnt_off00011297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11297 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAE 10524 bytes
SHA-256: a2e3f9b7bc79db9bce7db2232950c162b9cfdea40d1ff4b64fe2362b5e6fa646