Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a64b9a964a92fef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:02:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 152f87e83b7bee8443a9d0cf2601a2db SHA-1: e53235a12ff78c88ebe19d7e6fdc3a344dac6e6a SHA-256: 2a64b9a964a92fef2d55261535e7b6d10fa116d9e00af8ac27076bc8fbc2b6e4
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, including lottery or parcel delivery language combined with wording about funds and courier requirements. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting or link farms, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+internet+on+android+phone
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a043e4378e---58652738141.pdf
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/guzijovubavedigev.pdf
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/pevosixironewigekezuputo.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f24ca54b58---lododorapoporugudosupe.pdf
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/53723375447.pdf
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/35091899508.pdf
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/36108808422.pdf
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/lodino.pdf
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21730802083.pdf
    • http://everintelconsulting.com/upload/file/202109140643506594.pdf
    • http://thaicockstar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvapulotokubuf.pdf
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/54790796678.pdf
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/3764058338.pdf
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobatujajowutibemepuz.pdf
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109020342372249.pdf
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/puvujezuperadusirupibebib.pdf
    • http://modelseafarm.com/kweb/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobaripebuzad.pdf
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/60825789173.pdf
    • http://a1climbing.com/userfiles/files/16645718125.pdf
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/59346317102.pdf
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/62674182692.pdf
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/82980233414.pdf
    • http://adamex.ukrkarta.ua/fckeditor/userfiles/file/65308825577.pdf
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/28506765807.pdf
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23804816074.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e83d.bin
25034e3dff43199807d6e85a2cd1d1937f9be690570c39f48599611f68d53d8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83D 17620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011654.bin
34fad0c76efaaa6c6654685926ee635e43aa9932e394be75bf8d63ca1f816356
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11654 10520 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e38.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E38 16792 bytes