Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24e3b0ecaffaca61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e1a743ad5b95c1f2c2a8cb7a50bfc836 SHA-1: 98a3eca5b0c417d8b939441305e0d23b1a44b378 SHA-256: 24e3b0ecaffaca61385d6c7124e928390cb545e4c3f0fcf686c201dd861d44f8
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that employs a social-engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser update or plugin. This is a common tactic to trick users into executing malicious files or visiting phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and numerous external URLs are present, likely serving as download or phishing destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=update+windows+21h1 PDF link annotation
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/wuxilefadukivoseweripigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenajurewafagugurega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/99434604342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/ramorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/31752010392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/85683459132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ff1167dca5174a7a0e2310f555b8b48/rolafitexigubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/25018150448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/12827350886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorazapukelosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/65109518612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/ridor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurebadidefagutewugabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wijovaranusulutedalolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/kabimowedafuwofotumejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/65644526135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/zigadugozizijoxifuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/guredupavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/posanekikidorejizerubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/zobejonaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/jojusidunafuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8762e20c0126968ccc78f1c506f541/95118336893.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_off0001584a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584A 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 6f65f73946f40334a2f9fa44c874252b7a7b03943da9c3a8849553cba40e27ee
font_01_sfnt_off000186eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019f02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F02 10608 bytes
SHA-256: c65e6df00d40d4607abeaa0da589b5844b400022e4bd8e7df1dad5b71beeee3b