Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ad38766c30fc0c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.6 KB Created: 2021-02-20 08:43:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 02e06dcf7d168bbc432b615d015ceee0 SHA-1: 2916ac0b52414eb52d2d177a92ee62c03dca8d28 SHA-256: 2ad38766c30fc0c66caf2aebd30db2d958a18d98a8f789ab5b688402210f5413
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one specifically referencing a 'fake provisional driving licence'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or credential harvesting. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics further supports a phishing attack pattern.

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=best+fake+provisional+driving+licence+northern+ireland PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wezokobuli/bgdVzha/zubenamesalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradebot.space/4673906404leh8h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pisodanijuke.iblogger.org/56981425993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitigovoponezix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375948/rukemezinokaxu_sowuvixewe_zodujavegipiret_simusoxumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikezopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366842/tazitonubifelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatogupuragafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096405/b4c80e12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-italy.space/alpine_cde-164bt_manual_espaole8cf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xulawajikigi/aq6gj7S/choices_stories_you_play_cheats_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zipiluzus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234939/lagibasuwopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dafisuwikib/biiiggf/kasemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusabave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406295/luroj-roveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toramomegigex.22web.org/pilotajuramuwenexakogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xorazasuno/iayymjb/brawl_stars_box_simulator_pc_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toolsbestpricemicrometer.site/39609769025mufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wafogaz.rf.gd/goxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruvowepager.epizy.com/quorum_sae_reporting.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001979d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1979D 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 02770ca2e6b161b3a312f9ee61167c096a8bd60f83543cd7caa21f6b25c6c624
font_01_sfnt_off0001bd56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BD56 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 798ff37557ecca99b61c2de877f88b152e1f7c7c2320ae8909bf39026448e6cf
font_02_sfnt_off0001d06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D06A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: e5f3a1db1748db096a6247b0aee0936a197c4515220efa7c3922e62a345cfbdd
font_03_sfnt_off0001f703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F703 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 7348a63ea9206f1dd9d85ac5b8e77a4d6d13d552d707fc8209e912c0db264539