Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e280dcbf42deb57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a98c1824299aac491efaeee85cde4b55 SHA-1: 76178da2e4c1bdd698cc879bbe5fb68b2aeca305 SHA-256: 1e280dcbf42deb5785ae8f329b440c267a1038cf340cfa947983908be15e4877
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests a social-engineering attack aimed at tricking the user into installing malicious software by impersonating a browser update or extension. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/76021022714.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/10737061408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/bezejedatinewajuwafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxplus.in/images/contentimages/files/kojisubemozukenowapodemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/60803089585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/javipoposujasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/fipeworogenamemofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/gabakuzosoderovijamine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/38988982880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/mulalalelalivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/xidakosunobimozasojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/laviputibenigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139faa3b278b---51099484344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/95378985659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/sawutewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/61660040120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aejmo0alc.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90566299748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138365d746bb---91614921794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/dotatilujapaxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77470152429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/96971064647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufiwimufutozegonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+how+to+get+free+ucPDF 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_off0000e71c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF33 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 90c256dcdf40f51e30e5b32348fcd6ea2dbbc7ab07914e4cccb40e7a08eb2e70
font_02_sfnt_off000117b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B0 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 42a4c30722f5e9589c53d489b863122151ceb183d17a1a8f1431de33ba2d7712