Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 236c0ee8f71c5d94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 13:12:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9081b9eefd694669a161083dcf419b5e SHA-1: 655e26f8cbcf6040e012d9ab858810076a0a0cfc SHA-256: 236c0ee8f71c5d94139b9196e47c7df280ae968e8daf8bc50955483fcad2d21c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-heavy content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable elements. It contains numerous external URIs, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422b66eba14---1468320432.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/zilunokavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/71907418770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopodesameguzagines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofafowarububofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/30644242314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.de/_data/file/padibedefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cap2013.aseat.fr/userfiles/file/wifomofuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40aa66e7cbae6e74d8dbb16fee51c8ca/fologu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dejabizejinukubabaxisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/dimuxujuneforemasupese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/51581748036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/xenerofefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/lolubirelazixowotimewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disugisefunasofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/soweweferizeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/38626669654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/23496227837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59792720650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/tipuzilagiwafolekavejixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klwas.org/userfiles/images/file/fofavaxumasefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44335494775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=candy+crush+soda+saga+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000ad3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD3E 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 877f670cb332a8bd3e6833a402c04c30931b60f0e602d75b4c94029b1db5964a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC67B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8D 14500 bytes
SHA-256: b6cb9fa3a7ee0a6b43b27db9cc1f5917004d2cd06d2c1d5036d40e26eee7f75a